1973 in Turkey

Events in the year 1973 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

Cevdet Sunay (up tp 28 March 1973)

Fahri Korutürk (from 8 April 1972)

Ferit Melen (up to 15 April 1973)

Naim Talu (from 15 April 1973)

28 January – Turkish consuls Mehmet Baydar and Bahadır Demir assassinated by an Armenian terrorist.
3 March – Republican Party merges with Reliance Party to become Republican Reliance Party.^[2]
6 April – Fahri Korutürk elected as Turkish president.
27 May – Galatasaray wins the championship.^[3]
14 October – Republican People's Party (CHP) wins the general elections with plurality.
30 October – Bosphorus Bridge opens.
25 December – İsmet İnönü dies.^[2]

27 January – Turkish consuls Mehmet Baydar and Bahadır Demir assassinated by an Armenian terrorist.
21 March – Aşık Veysel, folk poet
21 April – Kemal Tahir, novelist
13 October – Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (pen name Halikarnas Balıkçısı), novelist
8 November – Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, poet.^[4]
25 December – İsmet İnönü, second president of Turkey

^ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 233–240
^ ^a ^b Heper, Metin (2009). Historical Dictionary of Turkey. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
^ "Türkiye Süper Lig 1972/1973, İddaa, Puan Durumu, Fikstür & Maç Sonuçları". www.mackolik.com.
^ Birinci, Necat (1993). Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel: Inceleme-Seçmeler (in Turkish). Cağaloğlu: Boğaziçi yayınları. p. 13. ISBN 978-9-75451-102-4.