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List of events
Events in the year 1996 in Turkey.
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Tansu Çiller (up to 6 March)
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Mesut Yılmaz (6 March-28 June)
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Necmettin Erbakan (from 28 June)
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Mesut Yılmaz (up to 6 March)
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Necmettin Erbakan (6 March-28 March)
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Mesut Yılmaz (from 28 June)
Ruling party and the main opposition
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True Path Party (DYP)
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Motherland Party (ANAP)
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Welfare Party (RP)
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Motherland Party (ANAP) (from 6 March)
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Welfare Party (RP) (6 March-28 June)
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Motherland Party (ANAP) (from 28 June)
- 16 January – The Panamanian ferry
MV Avrasya was hijacked by pro-
Chechen separatists
- 29 January – Beginning of
Kardak crises between Turkey and Greece
- 8 February –
BirgenAir accident 189 deaths
- 6 March – A coalition government (ANAP and DYP)
- 4 April – Novelist
Yaşar Kemal was awarded (Prix Méditerranée Étranger)
- 21 May –
Fenerbahçe won the championship of the
Turkish football league
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- 24 May – After corruption accuses Tansu Çiller the chairman of DYP announced that DYP will end the coalition’
- 2 June – By local elections
- June 3/14 –
Habitat II (conference)
- 14 June – Operation against militants
- 28 June – New coalition government (RP and DYP)
- 10 July –
Türksat 1C satellite
- 17 July – According to
Fortune,
Koç Holding was one of the 500 greatest companies of the World
- October 2/8 – Prime minister Erbakan's African tour. His visit to Libya caused sharp reactions
- 24 October –
Osmaniye Province was established
- 3 November –
Susurluk car crash
- 10 November –
NTV Turkey launched.[
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- 25 November – Mesut Yılmaz was wounded in Budapest, Hungary. This event was probably connected to
Susurluk scandal
- 2 January –
Sıla Saygı, female ice skater
- 6 February –
Emel Dereli, female track and field athlete competing in shot put
- 15 April –
İpek Soylu , female tennis player
- 27 August –
Ebru Topçu, female footballer
- 9 January –
Özdemir Sabancı (born in 1941), industrialist (assassinated)
- 28 January –
Müfide İlhan, first female city mayor
- 19 January –
Kasım Gülek (born in 1905), politician
- 25 February –
Vehbi Koç (born in 1901), industrialist
- 23 May –
Tanju Okan (born in 1938), singer
- 21 June –
Suphi Baykam (born 1926), physician and politician
- 28 July –
Ömer Lütfü Topal (born in 1942), casino owner
- 29 August –
Aliye Rona (born in 1921), actress
- 24 September –
Zeki Müren (born in 1931), singer
- 3 November –
Abdullah Çatlı (born in 1956), agent
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Süleyman Demirel
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Necmettin Erbakan
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Sıla Saygı
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Ebru Topçu
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İpek Soylu
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Kasım Gülek