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Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year1997 in Turkey.^[1]

• 20th Parliament of Turkey

• President –Süleyman Demirel
• Prime Minister –

Necmettin Erbakan (up to 30 June)

Mesut Yılmaz (from 30 June)

• Leader of the opposition –

Mesut Yılmaz (up to 30 June)

Necmettin Erbakan (from 30 June)

• Ruling party

Welfare Party (RP) with coalition partnerTrue Path Party (DYP)

Motherland Party (ANAP) with coalition partnersDemocratic Left Party (DSP) andDemocrat Turkey Party (DTP)

• Main opposition

Motherland Party (ANAP) (up to 30 June)

Welfare Party (RP) (from 30 June)

• 54th government of Turkey (up to 30 June)
• 55th government of Turkey (from 30 June)

• 8 January – Democrat Turkey Party was founded byHüsamettin Cindoruk.
• 11 January – Prime minister Necmettin Erbakan invited religious order leaders to his Office . This invitation caused political unrest
• 24 January – Sabotage toKirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline
• 2 February – Beginning of a civil disobedience action1 minute darkness for a continuous light by turning off the lights every night for 1 minute
• 28 February – In a meeting ofNational Security Council the military members of the council asked for a secular administration (This event later on was ironically calledpost modern coup)^[2]
• 23 April – On children’s day,Tansu Çiller, the vice prime minister, announced that the compulsory education was raised from 5 years to 8 years
• 15 May – Turkey enters northernIraq with the stated aim of "supportingKDP actions against thePKK."^[3]
• 16 May –Yaşar Kemal wonPeace Prize of the German Book Trade
• 22 May – Four male and six female Turkish weightlifters won the gold medal in 1997 European Weightlifting Championships
• 25 May –Galatasaray won the championship of theTurkish football league^[4]
• 21 June – Upon Necmettin Erbakan’s resignation, the president appointedMesut Yılmaz to form the new government.
• 25 October – Bus accident inKonya Province 49 deaths
• 14 December – At the Luxembourg summit, theEuropean Union decided to continue negotiations with Turkey

• 4 April –Alparslan Türkeş (born 1917), politician
• 4 May –Esin Engin (born 1945), musician
• 20 June –Cahit Külebi (born 1917), poet
• 2 July –Ayhan Songar (born 1926), academic and psychiatrist
• 26 August –Füreya Koral (born 1910), ceramist
• 26 December –Cahit Arf (born 1910), mathematician

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  Süleyman Demirel
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  Necmettin Erbakan

• 1996-97 1.Lig
• Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997

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