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Events in the year 1985 in Turkey.
Ruling party and the main opposition
Ruling party –Motherland Party (ANAP)
Main opposition
1 January- Value added tax (KDV) was imposed
26 February - Tarık Akan's film Pehlivan won honourable mention in 35th Berlin International Film Festival
12 March – Turkish embessy attack in Ottawa by a group of Armenian militants.
2 April – A plane crash over Balıkesir. 15 deaths
2 June - Fenerbahçe won the championship of the Turkish football league
27 June – Aydın Güven Gürkan defeated Necdet Calp in the general congress of the People’s Party
13 July – Ülkü Söylemezoğlu defeated Turgut Sunalp in the general congress of the Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP)
7September - 7 firemen dead during a big forest fire in Kuşadası.
20 October – Census (population 50,664,45)
2 November – SODEP and People's Party (HP) merged to form Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
7 November – Heavy rainfall in İstanbul
14 November – Democratic Left Party (DSP) was founded
18 November - Rahşan Ecevit was elected as the chairperson of DSP
22 January- Yasemin Ergene, actress
12 March - Binnaz Uslu, middle distance runner
13 March - Taner Sağır, weightlifter
23 April - Emrah Keskin, singer and winner of Turkstar
17 August - Sema Apak, short distance runner
20 September - Ruhi Su (born in 1912), folk singer
7 October - Cemal Reşit Rey (born in 1904), composer
24 November – Sinan Alaağaç (born 1960), footballer (goalkeeper)
29 November - Afet İnan (born in 1908), academic (Atatürk's adoptive daughter)
1985 in Turkey Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
