— about 55 years ago
Date | Event |
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1176-09-17 |
At the Battle of Myriokephalon the Byzantines fail to recover Anatolia from Turkish rule. |
1453-04-21 |
Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople |
1499-08-25 |
Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians |
1516-10-28 |
Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza. |
1521-08-28 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade |
1521-09-28 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade |
1521-09-29 |
Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
1522-12-25 |
Turkish troops occupy Rhodos |
1534-06-12 |
Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples |
1534-08-20 |
Turkish admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" occupies Tunis |
1534-12-04 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad |
1538-09-28 |
Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish |
1541-08-26 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda and annexes Hungary |
1542-08-28 |
Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed. |
1543-08-05 |
French & Turkish troops occupy Nice |
1543-09-06 |
French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice |
1544-05-01 |
Turkish troops occupy Hungary |
1547-06-13 |
King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman |
1551-08-14 |
Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli |
1560-07-29 |
Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden |
1565-09-08 |
Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John |
1571-05-20 |
Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League |
1574-09-13 |
Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis |
1654-05-13 |
Venetian fleet under Adm Adeler beats Turkish |
1663-09-25 |
Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army |
1664-01-21 |
Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army |
1664-05-14 |
Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers |
1676-11-03 |
Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier |
1683-07-16 |
Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna |
1683-09-03 |
Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna |
1687-08-12 |
Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders |
1690-10-08 |
Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
1700-07-13 |
Russian-Turkish peace |
1703-08-21 |
Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II in The Edirne Event, lessening the power of the sultans |
1714-11-22 |
King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden |
1730-09-17 |
Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees |
1737-07-18 |
Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians |
1738-05-27 |
Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov |
1739-10-03 |
The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739. |
1770-07-06 |
Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish |
1774-07-21 |
Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war. |
1775-05-07 |
Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria |
1790-12-22 |
The supposedly impenetrable Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies during the Russo-Turkish War (1787—1792) |
1826-04-10 |
The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive. |
1829-09-14 |
Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war |
1856-02-29 |
Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease |
1877-04-24 |
Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. |
1890-09-19 |
Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540 |
1897-04-05 |
The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. |
1897-05-12 |
Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece |
1897-05-15 |
The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War. |
1899-12-23 |
Tentative Turkish & German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway |
1901-04-05 |
Under threats from the Ottoman Turkish Government, Bulgaria is forced to arrest the leaders of the Macedonian Committee |
1901-11-07 |
A French fleet seizes the customs house on the Turkish-ruled island of Mytilene after Turks refuse to settle France's indemnity claims for losses suffered by French subjects in 1896 |
1902-03-10 |
Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri |
1902-03-18 |
Turkey grants Germany syndicate the first concession to construct a railroad through Turkish territory to Baghdad, to be linked to Berlin |
1910-08-28 |
Nicholas I, who first assumed power in 1860 and had his reign interrupted by Turkish rule, again proclaims himself king |
1911-09-29 |
Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War |
1911-11-05 |
Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica |
1912-03-05 |
Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. |
1912-05-04 |
Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes |
1912-10-14 |
Cretan representatives are admitted to the Greek assembly; in doing so the Greek Government challenges the Turkish Government |
1912-10-19 |
Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control |
1913-01-18 |
Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy |
1913-01-23 |
The Young Turks lead a coup d'etat against the Turkish Government |
1913-07-20 |
Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria |
1914-06-13 |
Eleftherios Venizelos annouces that Greece intends to annex Chios and Mytilene, two large islands off the Turkish coast; Greece and Turkey have been heading towards conflict for months over claims to Aegean islands |
1914-10-04 |
Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts |
1914-10-29 |
Turkish warships storm Black Sea |
1914-11-06 |
The British land troops (mostly from the Indian Army) at the head of the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia, and will begin to move westward in an attempt to draw Turkish troops from other fronts |
1914-12-17 |
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities |
1915-01-04 |
Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops |
1915-02-03 |
Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal |
1915-04-20 |
The Armenians rise and seize the Turkish town of Van, which they hold until Russians relieve them on 19 May; thousands of Armenians are killed |
1915-04-27 |
Counterattack launched by Turkish forces under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against allied troops |
1915-11-23 |
On the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, the Battle of Ctesiphon between Allied and Turkish forces enters its second day |
1916-06-05 |
The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire |
1916-12-23 |
World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. |
1917-03-28 |
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities |
1917-05-20 |
Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa |
1918-02-21 |
Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine |
1918-06-25 |
Baku-Turkish communist party forms |
1918-08-17 |
Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus |
1919-05-19 |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus. |
1920-04-23 |
Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara |
1920-08-10 |
Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate |
1922-09-09 |
Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens |
1922-09-16 |
Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia |
1922-11-16 |
Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help |
1922-11-18 |
Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief |
1923-08-13 |
Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja as president |
1924-03-03 |
German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed |
1924-08-16 |
Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed |
1925-01-30 |
Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople |
1925-02-26 |
Jihad against Turkish government |
1925-04-28 |
Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army |
1931-05-04 |
Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president |
1934-11-26 |
Turkish regiment decrees importing family names |
1936-07-10 |
New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles |
1938-07-04 |
France-Turkish friendship treaty |
1943-12-04 |
-Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres Inonu |
1955-11-29 |
Turkish government of Menderes resigns |
1955-12-08 |
Turkish government of Menderes forms |
1957-10-08 |
Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire |
1958-06-07 |
Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out |
1965-02-20 |
Turkish government of Uerguplu forms |
1967-12-29 |
Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus |
1971-03-12 |
Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army |
1974-03-03 |
World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) |
1974-08-14 |
Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus |
1975-02-13 |
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation |
1975-10-22 |
Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna |
1975-10-24 |
Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris |
1981-05-13 |
Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square, Vatican City |
1981-07-22 |
Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life |
1982-03-24 |
US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia |
1983-11-15 |
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed |
1984-08-15 |
The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military |
1986-04-05 |
US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing |
1988-06-15 |
Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens |
1993-01-24 |
Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara. |
1993-05-29 |
Neo-Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen, Germany |
1994-07-26 |
Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed |
1998-10-29 |
While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel. |
2000-06-13 |
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. |
2003-11-20 |
After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate. |
2007-01-19 |
Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast. |
2012-03-16 |
Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan |
2015-12-13 |
Russia fires on Turkish ship to 'avoid collision' in Aegean Sea |
2016-01-30 |
Children among 33 migrants dead after boat sinks off Turkish coast |
2016-03-11 |
Turkish Agency Says Baby Among 5 Drowned Heading to Greece |
2016-03-13 |
Explosion in Turkish Capital Kills at Least 27, Officials Say |
2016-03-13 |
Turkish court orders ban on Facebook, Twitter after blast: broadcasters |
2016-03-14 |
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant PKK camps in northern Iraq: army |
2016-06-01 |
Turkish army kills 14 Islamic State militants near Aleppo |
2016-07-16 |
Total of 1563 military personnel arrested after Turkish coup attempt: official |
2016-10-09 |
Turkish military says 31 Islamic State militants killed in northern Syria |
2016-10-18 |
Coalition warplanes kill 20 Islamic State militants in Syria: Turkish army |
2017-01-09 |
Turkish army says 48 Islamic State militants killed in Syria on Sunday |
2017-01-16 |
At Least 30 Dead After Turkish Cargo Plane Crashes in Kyrgyzstan |
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Date | Event |
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1441-02-09 |
Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub) |
1638-01-12 |
Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austrian fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars) |
1657-11-11 |
Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl/fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars) |
1822-03-22 |
Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice |
1840-12-21 |
Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan) |
1865-07-26 |
Fred Walton, A Turkish Cigarette |
1881-03-09 |
Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician |
1881-12-22 |
Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician |
1889-03-27 |
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat |
1889-04-20 |
Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996) |
1905-01-28 |
Luther George Simjian, Turkish-American Inventor (teleprompter and first self-posing portrait camera) |
1915-03-20 |
Elsa Lioni, Turkish Delight |
1916-08-11 |
Ad Noyons, Turkish Delight |
1918-9-05 |
Wim Hoddes, Turkish Delight |
1920-04-11 |
Bert Dijkstra, Turkish Delight |
1920-07-18 |
Seyfi Havaeri, The Turkish Heroes in Korea |
1922-05-13 |
Truus Dekker, Turkish Delight |
1922-07-09 |
Tonny Huurdeman, Turkish Delight |
1924-01-27 |
Rauf Denktasj, Turkish-Cypriot politician |
1925-10-26 |
Jan Wolkers, Turkish Delight |
1928-05-19 |
Colin Chapman, 2008 Turkish Grand Prix |
1929-06-21 |
Dick Scheffer, Turkish Delight |
1931-12-06 |
Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996) |
1932-05-07 |
Hans Boskamp, Turkish Delight |
1933-02-06 |
Jon Bluming, Turkish Delight |
1937-09-07 |
Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor |
1939-01-08 |
Manfred de Graaf, Turkish Delight |
1939-07-10 |
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999) |
1940-11-22 |
Reinier Heideman, Turkish Delight |
1941-08-06 |
Hubertus AGM "Bert" Andre, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit-Come Back) |
1941-11-21 |
İdil Biret, Turkish pianist |
1942-04-13 |
Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer. |
1942-08-10 |
Suze Broks, Turkish Delight |
1942-08-22 |
Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993) |
1943-01-02 |
Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television producer (d. 1999) |
1943-05-03 |
Marijke Frijlink, Turkish Delight |
1944-11-11 |
Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor |
1945-08-22 |
Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician |
1945-09-01 |
Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer |
1945-10-18 |
Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player |
1946-02-12 |
Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer |
1948-02-25 |
Marjol Flore, Turkish Delight |
1948-10-14 |
Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007) |
1949-01-12 |
Ludovica Modugno, Steam: The Turkish Bath |
1952-07-28 |
Monique van de Ven, Dutch actress (Turkish Fruit) |
1952-07-28 |
Monique van de Ven, Turkish Delight |
1952-10-06 |
Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer |
1953-10-04 |
Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor |
1954-06-05 |
Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor |
1954-06-21 |
Müjde Ar, Turkish actress |
1954-07-13 |
Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer |
1954-09-15 |
Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007) |
1957-01-23 |
Aldo De Scalzi, Steam: The Turkish Bath |
1957-07-07 |
Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact) |
1958-01-09 |
Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II |
1958-06-07 |
Pivio, Steam: The Turkish Bath |
1958-9-26 |
Vincenzo Mosca, Steam: The Turkish Bath |
1963-04-21 |
Francesca d'Aloja, Steam: The Turkish Bath |
1964-12-04 |
Sertab Erener, Turkish singer |
1965-04-14 |
Alberto Molinari, Steam: The Turkish Bath |
1967-01-23 |
Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria, Turkish weight lifter (Oly-gold-1988) |
1967-03-04 |
Kubilay Türkyılmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer |
1967-11-20 |
Teoman, Turkish rock singer |
1968-08-25 |
Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer |
1968-11-24 |
Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer |
1970-02-16 |
Serdar Ortac, Turkish popstar |
1970-04-14 |
Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer |
1970-07-03 |
Askin Nur Yengi, Turkish Tales |
1970-08-24 |
Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer |
1971-09-01 |
Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer |
1971-09-29 |
Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer |
1972-04-12 |
Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer |
1972-10-17 |
Tarkan, Turkish singer |
1973-01-12 |
Hande Yener, Turkish singer |
1973-05-29 |
Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer |
1973-07-14 |
Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter |
1973-08-25 |
Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director |
1974-10-31 |
Muzzy Izzet, Turkish footballer |
1975-08-07 |
Koray Candemir, Turkish singer |
1975-08-17 |
İlhan Mansız, Turkish footballer |
1976-03-26 |
Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress |
1976-08-01 |
Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer |
1977-06-28 |
Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi |
1978-12-12 |
Evren Genis, Turkish composer |
1978-12-24 |
Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer |
1979-03-19 |
Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player |
1979-05-12 |
Erdinç Saçan, Turkish-Dutch politician |
1979-05-26 |
Mehmet Okur (Memo), Turkish basketball player |
1979-06-29 |
Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007) |
1980-03-30 |
Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter |
1980-06-16 |
Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress |
1981-01-01 |
Abdülkadir Koçak, Turkish boxer |
1981-03-17 |
Servet Çetin, Turkish Football Player |
1981-03-24 |
Gary Paffett, The Turkish Grand Prix |
1981-05-27 |
Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor |
1981-06-30 |
Can Artam, Turkish racing driver |
1981-09-07 |
Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer |
1981-09-28 |
Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress |
1982-01-16 |
Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer |
1982-12-02 |
Burcu Çoban, Turkish Tales |
1982-12-08 |
Hamit Altintop, German-born Turkish Football player (identical twin brother of Halil Altintop) |
1982-12-08 |
Halil Altintop, Turkish Football player (identical twin brother of Hamit Altintop) |
1983-10-29 |
Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver |
1984-01-30 |
McKinley Anthony, Turkish Passport |
1987-05-15 |
Ersan İlyasova, Turkish basketball player |
Date | Event |
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1030-04-30 |
Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies |
1063-09-04 |
Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad |
1072-12-15 |
Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029) |
1260-10-23 |
Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered |
1397-06-15 |
Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity |
1495-02-25 |
Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 |
1501-01-03 |
Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59 |
1571-10-07 |
Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in the Battle of Lepanto |
1579-06-30 |
Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary |
1657-09-26 |
Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48 |
1676-10-30 |
Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies |
1683-12-25 |
Kara Mustafa Pasha Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83) and Ottoman general, executed. (b. 1634) |
1691-08-19 |
Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle |
1702-09-22 |
Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies |
1712-04-10 |
Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77 |
1871-09-07 |
Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies |
1888-12-02 |
Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47 |
1895-05-25 |
Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice, dies at 73 |
1922-08-04 |
Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40 |
1936-12-28 |
Fred Walton, A Turkish Cigarette |
1944-01-14 |
Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74 |
1963-06-03 |
Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902) |
1964-01-09 |
Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about 80 |
1968-12-01 |
Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921) |
1972-05-06 |
Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (b. 1947) |
1972-06-13 |
Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925) |
1973-12-25 |
İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884) |
1975-10-24 |
Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris |
1981-02-26 |
FC Terborgh, [Reijnier Flaes], lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79 |
1982-12-16 |
Colin Chapman, 2008 Turkish Grand Prix |
1983-06-04 |
Elsa Lioni, Turkish Delight |
1986-11-24 |
Dick Scheffer, Turkish Delight |
1991-03-16 |
Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies |
1991-03-16 |
Wim van den Brink, Turkish Delight |
1991-09-13 |
Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936) |
1991-10-16 |
Tonny Huurdeman, Turkish Delight |
1993-01-24 |
Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies |
1993-09-04 |
Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered |
1994-09-29 |
Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered |
1995-01-11 |
Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59 |
1996-11-03 |
Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956) |
1997-04-05 |
Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP), dies |
1997-10-23 |
Luther George Simjian, Turkish-American Inventor (teleprompter and first self-posing portrait camera), dies at 92 |
1999-02-01 |
Barış Manço, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943) |
2000-07-03 |
Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944) |
2000-09-09 |
Ad Noyons, Turkish Delight |
2002-07-13 |
Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908) |
2003-03-17 |
Bert Dijkstra, Turkish Delight |
2003-10-16 |
Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919) |
2003-11-20 |
Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945) |
2004-08-15 |
Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910) |
2006-11-05 |
Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1925) |
2007-01-19 |
Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954) |
2007-07-04 |
Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979) |
2007-10-19 |
Jan Wolkers, Turkish Delight |
2007-11-30 |
Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948) |
2008-05-10 |
Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928) |
2008-07-05 |
Hasan Doğan, 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956) |
2008-10-15 |
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish poet (b. 1914) |
2009-01-24 |
Seyfi Havaeri, The Turkish Heroes in Korea |
2009-02-17 |
Gazanfer Özcan, Turkish actor (b. 1931) |
2010-02-25 |
İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish academic and the founder of YÖK (d. 1915) |
2010-12-10 |
J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913) |
2011-02-02 |
Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ. (b. 1975) |
2011-03-22 |
Hans Boskamp, Turkish Delight |
2012-01-13 |
Rauf Denktash, leader of Turkish Cypriots, dies of multiple organ failure at 87 |
2012-04-24 |
Wim Hoddes, Turkish Delight |