1967 in Turkey
# 1967 in Turkey

Events in the year 1967 in Turkey.

## Parliament

* 13th Parliament of Turkey

## Incumbents

* President – Cevdet Sunay
* Prime Minister – Süleyman Demirel
* Leader of the opposition – İsmet İnönü

## Ruling party and the main opposition

* Ruling party – Justice Party (AP)
* Main opposition – Republican People's Party (CHP)

## Cabinet

* 30th government of Turkey

## Events

* 3 January – Anadol, the first Turkish made car
* 30 April – Reliance Party formed.
* 12 May – Reliance Party was founded by Turhan Feyzioğlu
* 4 June – Beşiktaş won the championship of Turkish football league
* 22 July – The 7.1 $M_s$  Mudurnu earthquake affected the Bolu Province with high intensity shaking, killing 86.
* 27 July – Earthquake in Pülümür (about 1000 km east of the 22 July earthquake)
* 13 September – An agreement about transporting a group of Turks living in the island Adakale in Romania.
* 17 September – More than 40 people died during a fight after the football match between Kayserispor and Sivasspor.
* 31 October – Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş was arrested by the Greek Cypriots
* 18 November – Following Greek attacks to Turkish villages in Cyprus Turkish air raids to Greek forces.
* 29 November – Turkey and Greece agreed on a plan to halt the hostilities
* 29 December – Turks in Cyprus formed their own government

## Birth

* 1 January – Mehmet Şimşek, government minister
* 27 February – Volkan Konak, singer
* 4 April – Ali Babacan, deputy prime minister
* 4 November – Yılmaz Erdoğan, filmmaker
* 20 November Teoman Yakupoğlu, singer

### Undated

* Murat Günel, Turkish medical scientist

## Deaths

* 9 March – Vâlâ Nureddin (born in 1901), poet and columnist
* 11 March – Yusuf Ziya Ortaç (born in 1895), humorist and publisher
* 17 May – Nurullah Ataç (born in 1898), essayist and literary critic
* 30 June – Yavuz Abadan (born in 1905), academic
* 20 July – Fikret Mualla Saygı (1904), painter
* 23 July – Ahmet Kutsi Tecer (born in 1901), poet and politician
* 5 August – Mustafa İnan (born in 1911), academic and civil engineer
* 13 September – Şerif Muhiddin Targan (born in 1892), musician

## Gallery

* Süleyman Demirel
* İsmet İnönü
* Mehmet Şimşek
* Volkan Konak
* Ali Babacan
* Teoman Yakupoğlu
