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1972 in Turkey

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

1972 in Turkey

Decades:
  
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

Events in the year 1972 in Turkey.

Contents

Parliament

  • 14th Parliament of Turkey

    • Incumbents

  • President – Cevdet Sunay
  • Prime Minister:

    • Cabinet

  • 34th government of Turkey (up to 22 May 1972)
  • 35th government of Turkey (from 22 May 1972)

    • Events

  • 8 February - The documents about the Yenice Conference (Between İsmet İnönü and Winston Churchill in 1943) were disclosed
  • 30 March – a group of People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey militants headed by Mahir Çayan who had kadnapped two British and one Canadian techinians were killed after gunfight
  • 7 May - In the kurultay (congress) of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Bülent Ecevit the former secretary general of the party defeated party leader İsmet İnönü.
  • 28 May - Galatasaray won the championship of Turkish football league.
  • 16 July – Patriarch Demetrios I was elected as the new partiarch of İstanbul
  • 4 September - A group of MP s from CHP founded Republican Party
  • 1 October - Turkish boxer Cemal Kamacı won the European championship in 63,5 kg. weight category

    • Births

  • 29 January - Engin Günaydın, actor and screenwriter
  • 17 October - Tarkan, singer

    • Deaths

  • 6 January - Tevfik Rüştü Aras former foreign minister
  • 6 May - Deniz Gezmiş and two friends, members of armed underground organization People's Liberation Army of Turkey
  • 15 September Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
  • 19 December Ahmet Emin Yalman, journalist

    • References

    1972 in Turkey Wikipedia
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