1988 in Turkey
Events in the year 1988 in Turkey.
Parliament
Incumbents
Ruling party and the main opposition
- Ruling party – Motherland Party (ANAP)
- Main opposition – Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
Cabinet
Events
January
- 11 January – Turkey signs Council of Europe’s convention on “Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.”
- 25 January – Turkey signs United Nations’ international convention against inhuman treatment and torture.
February
- 1 February – Socialist Party founded.
- 28 February – First heart transplant in Turkey
April
- 6 April – State visit of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
- 27 April – Naim Süleymanoğlu wins three gold medals in Cardiff European Weightlifting Championships.
May
- 29 May – Galatasaray wins the championship
June
- 26 June – State visit of Kenan Evren to the United States.
July
- 3 July – Second bridge over the Bosporus opens.
- 12 July – State visit of Evren to Great Britain.
September
- 20 September – Naim Süleymanoğlu wins gold in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
October
- 16 October – State visit of Evren to West Germany.
- 22 October - Esat Oktay Yıldıran was assassinated by PKK.
November
- 20 November – Suat Atalık gains the title Grandmaster in Chess Olympiad.
December
- 3 December – Council of Higher Education, the highest body of Turkish universities, lifts ban against Islamic-style head scarves for female university students.
- 8 December – Constitutional Court rejects request by chief prosecutor to close down Socialist Party.
- 16 December – State visit of Turgut Özal to the United States.
Births
- 5 January – Ziya Erdal, footballer
- 8 January – Burcu Erbaş, basketball player
- 2 February – Turgut Doğan Şahin, footballer
- 10 April – Özgürcan Özcan, footballer
- 1 May – Tuğçe Şahutoğlu, hammer thrower
- 11 May – Tuğçe Hocaoğlu, volleyball player
- 31 May – Didem Ege, volleyball player
- 8 June – Begüm Dalgalar – basketball player
- 13 July – Neriman Özsoy, volleyball player
- 7 September – Yağmur Koçyiğit, volleyball player
- 26 September – Servet Tazegül, taekwondo practitioner
- 28 September – Bahar Çağlar, basketball player
- 15 October – Mesut Özil, footballer
Deaths
- 8 January – Duygu Aykal, ballerina
- 21 January – Cemal Reşit Eyüpoğlu, lawyer, politician and journalist
- 24 March – Turhan Feyzioğlu, lawyer, politician
- 18 April – Oktay Rifat, novelist
- 1 May – Altan Erbulak, caricaturist, theatre actor
- 31 May – Lütfi Akadlı, lawyer
- 3 September – Ferit Melen, former prime minister
- 29 September – Sıtkı Yırcalı, politician