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Events in the year 1980 in Turkey.
Ruling party and the main opposition
Ruling party
Main opposition
43rd government of Turkey (up to 12 September)
44th government of Turkey (from 21 September)
2 January – Warning from the army about terrorism
8 February – Laborer demonstrations in İzmir and İstanbul
26 March – First session in the parliament for electing the new president, no result (just like the following 113 votings)
7 April – Fahri Korutürk the 6th president of Turkey left his Office after expiring his legal term
25 May -Trabzonspor won the championship of the Turkish football league
5 August - Hazal a film by Ali Özgentürk won the gramd prix in France.
6 August – ASALA militants in Lyon attacked Turkish consulate
12 September - Coup d’etat
11 October – Census (Population: 44,736,947)
13 October - Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 type aircraft was hijacked on the flight from Munich, Germany to Ankara by four radical Islamist militants
27 October – Temporary constitution
30 October – Bülent Ecevit resigned from his post in the Republican people’s Party (which was passive because of the coup)
4 February - Gündüz Gürol Azer, footballer
12 April Arda Kural, actor
16 June – Nehir Erdoğan, actress
14 October-Cansu Dere, actress
7 November - Ismail Matev, Bulgarian-Turkish singer-songwriter
11 April, Ümit Kaftancıoğlu (born in 1935), TV producer (assassinated)
18 May – Gündüz Kılıç (born in 1918), football coach
19 July – Nihat Erim (born in 1912), former prime minister (33rd and 34th government of Turkey, assassinated)
22 July – Kemal Türkler (boen in 1926), trade union leader (assassinated)
27 June – Ahmet Muhip Dıranas (born in 1909), poet and author
30 November – Orhan Eyüpoğlu (born in 1918), politician
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