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See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year1989 in Turkey.^[1]

• 18th Parliament of Turkey

• President –

Kenan Evren (up to 9 November)

Turgut Özal (from 9 November)

• Prime Minister –

Turgut Özal (up tp 9 November)

Yıldırım Akbulut (from 9 November)

• Leader of the opposition –Erdal İnönü

• Ruling party –Motherland Party (ANAP)
• Main opposition –Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)

• 46th government of Turkey (up to 9 November)
• 47th government of Turkey (from 9 November)

• 11 June – Some 2,000Bulgarian Turks deported to Turkey following forced name changes.
• 11 June –Fenerbahçe wins the championship of thechampionship^[2]
• 15 June – 4 new provinces established:Aksaray,Bayburt,Karaman andKırıkkale

• 17 September – Central Bank announces that rescheduled foreign debts have been repaid.^[3]

• 21 October – Two Syrian warplanes shoot down a civil cartography plane within Turkey, killing five.
• 31 October – Parliament electsPrime MinisterTurgut Özal asPresident.^[3]

• 17 September – WeightlifterNaim Süleymanoğlu wins 4 gold medals in the AthensWorld Weightlifting Championships.

• 9 November –PresidentTurgut Özal appointsYıldırım Akbulut as the new prime minister.
• 17 November –Yıldırım Akbulut elected chairman of Motherland Party.^[3]
• 29 November – Turkey approvesEuropean Social Charter.^[3]

• 8 December – TheUnited Communist Party announces its intention to regain its legal status.^[3]

• 1 January –Fatih Avan, javelin thrower
• 27 January –Melek Hu (Naturalized citizen), table tennis player
• 28 January –Gamze Tazim, actress
• 9 February –Deniz Aslan, footballer
• 22 February –Gülşah Gümüşay, basketball player
• 17 May -Kadir Korkut, poet and writer
• 21 May –Gülcan Mıngır, middle distance runner
• 5 July –Dilara Buse Günaydın, swimmer
• 10 September –Tolga Ünlü, footballer
• 28 September –Çağla Büyükakçay, tennis player
• 10 October –Rıza Kayaalp, wrestler
• 29 October –Leyla Tuğutlu, model and beauty pageant contestant
• 8 November -Can Yaman, actor
• 10 December –İlknur Melis Durası, engineer and model

• January 12 -Adil Candemir, wrestler (b.1917)
• January 20
  • Mete Adanır, footballer (b.1961)
  • Muzaffer Badalıoğlu, footballer (b.1960)

• February 15 -Hüseyin Akbaş, wrestler (b.1933)

• March 6 -Fecri Ebcioğlu, songwriter and composer, (b.1929)
• March 13 -Fahrettin Özdilek, military officer, politician and interimPrime Minister of Turkey (b.1898)

• April 16 -Hakkı Yeten, footballer, football manager and sports executive (b.1910)
• April 18
  • Adil Atan, wrestler (b.1929)
  • Candan Tarhan, footballer and football manager (b.1942)
• June 24 –Saadet Çağatay,turkologist, professor and writer(b.1907)

• July 15 -Nesuhi Ertegün, record producer and executive ofAtlantic Records (b.1925)

• August 14 –Bergen, singer (b.1959)

• September 13 –İsmail Rüştü Aksal, civil servant and politician (b.1911)
• September 21 –Ertem Eğilmez, film director, producer and screenwriter (b.1929)

• October 9 –Yusuf Atılgan, novelist (b.1921)
• December 15 –Ali Şen, actor (b.1918)

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  Kenan Evren
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  Bülent Ecevit
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  Fatih Avan
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  Melek Hu
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  Melek Tazim
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  Gülcan Mıngır
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  Tolga Ünlü
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  Çağla Büyükakçay
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  Rıza Kayaalp
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  Leyla Tuğutlu
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  İlknur Melis Durası

• Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
• 1988–89 1.Lig

• 1989 in Turkey
• Years of the 20th century in Turkey
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