1967 in Turkey
Events in the year 1967 in Turkey.
Parliament
Incumbents
Ruling party and the main opposition
- Ruling party – Justice Party
- Main opposition – Republican People's Party
Cabinet
Events
- 3 January – Anadol, the first Turkish made car
- 30 April – Reliance Party formed.
- 12 May – Reliance Party was founded by Turhan Feyzioğlu
- 4 June – Beşiktaş won the championship of Turkish football league
- 22 July – The 7.1 Mudurnu earthquake affected the Bolu Province with high intensity shaking, killing 86.
- 27 July – Earthquake in Pülümür
- 13 September – An agreement about transporting a group of Turks living in the island Adakale in Romania.
- 17 September – More than 40 people died during a fight after the football match between Kayserispor and Sivasspor.
- 31 October – Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş was arrested by the Greek Cypriots
- 18 November – Following Greek attacks to Turkish villages in Cyprus Turkish air raids to Greek forces.
- 29 November – Turkey and Greece agreed on a plan to halt the hostilities
- 29 December – Turks in Cyprus formed their own government
Birth
- 1 January – Mehmet Şimşek, government minister
- 27 February – Volkan Konak, singer
- 4 April – Ali Babacan, deputy prime minister
- 4 November – Yılmaz Erdoğan, filmmaker
- 20 November – Teoman Yakupoğlu, singer
Undated
- Murat Günel, Turkish medical scientist
Deaths
- 2 February – Nedim Ökmen, economist and politician
- 9 March – Vâlâ Nureddin, poet and columnist
- 11 March – Yusuf Ziya Ortaç, humorist and publisher
- 17 April – Ali Fuat Başgil, academic and politician
- 17 May – Nurullah Ataç, essayist and literary critic
- 30 June – Yavuz Abadan, academic
- 20 July – Fikret Mualla Saygı, painter
- 23 July – Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, poet and politician
- 5 August – Mustafa İnan, academic and civil engineer
- 13 September – Şerif Muhiddin Targan, musician