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19 May – Beşiktaş won the championship of the Turkish football league [2] 9 June – Socialist International summit in Istanbul sponsored by SHP; 23 June – After the party congress of ANAP Yıldırım Akbulut was replaced by Mesut Yılmaz in the government; 6 July – Lale Aytaman was appointed as the Muğla Province governor. She was the ...
General elections were held in Turkey on 20 October 1991, to elect members to the 19th Grand National Assembly.It was the first by the ruling Motherland Party to be contested without its founding leader, Turgut Özal, who had become Turkish president two years previously.
According to British journalist Robert Fisk, the only reporter present, in April 1991, a British Marines unit consisting of about thirty men was tasked with distributing relief supplies to 3,000 Kurds and Assyrians in Yeşilova under the watch of the Turkish military, but they found themselves in direct confrontation with the Turks.
The following is a complete list of people who held the office of President of Turkey. There have been twelve heads of state since the inception of the republican period in 1923, following the Turkish War of Independence. For a list of rulers of the predecessor Ottoman Empire, see List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire.
1991 in Turkish politics (2 C) S. 1991 in Turkish sport (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1991 in Turkey" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
But even though the ban on speaking in a non Turkish language was lifted in 1991, the Kurdish aim to be recognized as a distinct people than Turkish or to have Kurdish included as a language of instruction, but this was often classified as separatism or support of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). [14]
There are three Names in Turkish for Balkan Turks and other Muslims of former Ottoman Empire to describe the Immigrants who went to Turkey. Muhacir (Muslims from Balkans and Caucasus in Ottoman Empire) Mübadil (Muslims from Greece in 1923 from Greece to Turkey) Göçmen (Muslims from Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Greece after 1930 to ...
Turkish people or Turks (Turkish: Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still live across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire .