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Events in the year 1988 in Turkey.
Ruling party and the main opposition
Ruling party –Motherland Party (ANAP)
Main opposition - Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
46th government of Turkey
28 February –First heart transplant in Turkey (Ankara University)
1 March – Erdal İnönü resigned from the presidency of SHP, but revoked his resignation
8 March – Necdet Karababa replaced Bülent Ecevit in DSP after the resignation of Bülent Ecevit.
27 April – Weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu won three gold medals in Cardiff European Weightlifting Championships
29 May -Galatasaray won the championship of the Turkish football league
17 June – Assassination attempt to prime minister Turgut Özal
3 July – Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge over Bosphorous (2nd Boshorous connection)
20 September – Weighlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu won gold medal in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seul.
25 September – Referendum on moving the scheduled local elections to an earlier date. Rejected.
20 November – Chess player Suat Atalık gained the title grandmaster in Chess Olympiad
29 December – DSP chairman Necdet Karababa resigned
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 trower
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
8 January - Duygu Aykal (born in1943), ballerina
24 March - Turhan Feyzioğlu (born in 1922), lawyer, politician
18 April - Oktay Rifat (born in 1914), novelist
1 May - Altan Erbulak (born in 1929), caricaturist, theatre actor
31 May - Lütfi Akadlı (born in 1902), lawyer
3 September - Ferit Melen (born in 1906), former prime minister (35th government of Turkey)
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