Events in the year 1986 in Turkey.[1]
Parliament
Incumbents
- Aydın Güven Gürkan (up to 30 May)
- Erdal İnönü (from 30 May)
Ruling party and the main opposition
- Ruling party – Motherland Party (ANAP)
- Main opposition – Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
Cabinet
Events
May
- 4 May – Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP) is dissolved.[2]
- 9 May – Free Democratic Party founded.[2]
- 16 May – True Path Party (DYP) forms parliamentary group.[2]
- 16 May – Eyüp Can wins bronze at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno, United States
- 30 May – Erdal Inönü elected chairman of Social Democratic Populist Party (SDPP).[2]
June
- 1 June – Beşiktaş wins the championship[3]
August
- 15 August – Turkey bombs separatist enclaves in Northern Iraq.[2]
September
- 6 September – 22 die in the terror attack to the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul.
October
- 6 October – TRT 2, the second TV channel, starts airing.
- 24 October – Construction starts on Soviet natural gas pipeline.[2]
November
- 12 November – Tanju Çolak wins European Golden Shoe.
- 30 November – Free Democratic Party dissolves.[2]
December
Births
- 9 February – Azize Tanrıkulu, taekwondo athlete
- 16 February – Nevin Yanıt, sprinter
- 22 February – Işıl Alben, basketball player
- 23 February – Serhat Çetin, basketball player
- 3 March – Mehmet Topal, footballer
- 4 June – Tolgahan Acar, footballer
- 25 June – Seda Tokatlıoğlu, volleyball player
- 16 September – Resul Tekeli, basketball player
Deaths
- 9 January – Nurullah Berk (born 1906), painter
- 10 January – Celal Yardımcı (born 1911), politician
- 7 May – Haldun Taner (born 1915), writer
- 28 May – Edip Cansever, (born 1928), poet
- 22 August – Celal Bayar (born 1883), former president
Gallery
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Kenan Evren
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Turgut Özal
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Nevin Yanıt
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Işıl Alben
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Mehmet Topal
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Celal Bayar
See also
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