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2013 Event - Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan responds to air strikes on Syria, saying Israel's government is waging 'state terrorism'

2012 Event - Millions are left without power when a trasformer malfunctions in Bursa, Turkey

2011 Event - Abdullah Gul, President of Turkey, begins a three-day visit to the United Kingdom

2011 Event - The city of Van in eastern Turkey experiences a 7.2-magnitude earthquake; 100 people are killed

2011 Event - The 2011 Syrian uprising continues as Turkey seizes a Syrian ship that is possibly carrying weapons to the Syrian Army

2011 Event - The 8th largest search engine in the world, Russia's Yandex, marks its first venture outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by expanding into Turkey

2011 Event - Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a general election

2010 Event - Turkey's historic Haydarpa a Terminal is damaged in a fire in Istanbul

2010 Event - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel states he will not apologize to Turkey for the Gaza flotilla clash, and that the injured will not receive any compensation

2010 Event - Kurdish rebels claim responsibility for a bus bomb in Istanbul, Turkey; five people were killed and twelve people injured

2009 Event - Fearing that turkeys contracted swine flu from humans, two turkey farms in Valparaiso, Chile are quarantined

1999 Event - Earthquake kills 700 in Duzce, Turkey

1999 Event - Earthquake kills 17,000 in northwest Turkey

1997 Event - Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die

1994 Event - B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed

1993 Event - Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villagers in East Turkey

1993 Event - Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36

1993 Event - Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey

1993 Event - Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey

1993 Event - Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey

1993 Death - Turgut zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65

1992 Event - Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die

1990 Event - 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq

1989 Event - Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey

1987 Event - Turkey asks to join European market

1983 Event - Turkey Turgut zals Moederland party wins elections

1982 Event - Turkey adopts constitution

1980 Event - Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey

1978 Event - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey

1977 Event - Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off

1976 Birthday - Yesim Cetin, Miss Turkey Universe 1997

1975 Event - 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey

1975 Event - Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed

1974 Event - Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)

1974 Event - Turkey invades Cyprus

1974 Event - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey

1973 Event - Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2 years)

1971 Event - Turkey state of siege proclaimed

1971 Event - "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey

1970 Event - Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey

1970 Event - 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)

1969 Event - Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK

1966 Event - Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed

1965 Event - Pakistan, Iran and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact

1964 Event - Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots

1964 Event - Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

1962 Event - Nikita Khrushchev sends note to John F. Kennedy offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if U.S. closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected

1962 Event - Inonu Government forms in Turkey

1961 Death - Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey 1950 - 1960, dies at 62

1960 Event - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey

1959 Event - Britain, Turkey and Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence

1957 Event - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey

1955 Event - Pact of Baghdad between Iraq and Turkey signed

1955 Event - Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey and Iraq a defense alliance

1953 Event - Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die

1952 Birthday - Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, novelist, professor in the Humanities, teaching comparative literature, writing, at Columbia University, received 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature

1950 Event - Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey

1950 Birthday - Eugene Fodor, born in Turkey Creek, Colorado, violinist, 1974 Tchaikovsky Award

1949 Event - Turkey recognizes Israel

1947 Event - "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece

1944 Event - Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany

1944 Event - Heavy air raid on U.S. fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"

1941 Event - Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany

1939 Event - Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)

1939 Event - Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die

1939 Event - Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey

1939 Event - France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey

1939 Event - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey

1938 Death - Kemal Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, general/president Turkey, dies at 57

1935 Event - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey

1935 Event - President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"

1934 Event - Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania)

1930 Event - Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship

1930 Birthday - Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire

1929 Event - Turkey introduces female suffrage

1929 Event - Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty

1929 Death - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74

1929 Event - Turkey and Bulgaria sign friendship treaty

1929 Event - Turkey signs Litvinov-pact

1929 Event - Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey

1928 Event - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet

1928 Event - Turkey passes separation of church and state

1927 Event - U.S. restores diplomatic relations with Turkey

1926 Event - Turkey allows civil marriage

1926 Death - Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies

1926 Death - Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies

1926 Event - Persia, Turkey and Afghanistan sign treaties of security

1925 Event - Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar

1925 Event - Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact

1923 Event - Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)

1923 Event - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital

1923 Event - Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne

1922 Event - Turkey and Greece sign cease fire

1922 Death - Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered

1921 Event - Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece

1921 Event - Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire

1921 Event - Turkey makes peace with Armenia

1920 Event - Turkey and Armenia agree to peace treaty

1920 Event - Treaty of Sevres (Allies and Turkey)

1918 Death - Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies

1918 Death - Abdul-Hamid II, 34th sultan of Turkey (lost Serbia/Egypt), dies at 65

1917 Event - Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey

1917 Event - T. E. Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey

1916 Event - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey

1915 Birthday - Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey

1915 Event - Italy declares war on Turkey

1914 Event - Great Britain and France and Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Event - Russia declares Turkey the war

1914 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Event - Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey

1914 Event - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany

1914 Event - Turkey signs military pact with Germany

1914 Event - Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty

1914 Event - Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty

1913 Event - Turkey and Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople

1913 Death - Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated

1912 Event - Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign weapons pact

1912 Event - Albania declares it's Indepenence from Turkey

1912 Event - Albania declares independence from Turkey

1912 Event - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declares war on Turkey

1912 Event - 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey

1912 Event - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War

1912 Event - War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania

1912 Event - 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break

1911 Event - Italy declares war on Turkey

1911 Event - Italy declares war on Turkey

1911 Event - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey

1909 Birthday - Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director, Streetcar Named Desire

1909 Event - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown

1908 Event - Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece

1908 Event - Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar

1908 Event - Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

1906 Event - British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey

1904 Death - Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies

1903 Event - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey

1887 Event - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey)

1883 Event - Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail

1881 Birthday - Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician

1881 Birthday - Kemal Ataturk, 1st President of Rep of Turkey

1878 Event - Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties

1878 Event - Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes

1878 Event - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)

1878 Event - Greece declares war on Turkey

1877 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania

1876 Event - Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed

1876 Event - Montenegro declares war on Turkey

1876 Event - Serbia declares war on Turkey

1876 Death - Abdul-Aziz, 32nd sultan of Turkey (1861-76), dies at 46

1862 Event - Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate assault attack

1861 Death - Abdul-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61), dies at 38

1861 Birthday - Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey, 1918-22

1855 Birthday - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey, WW I

1848 Birthday - Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet

1844 Birthday - Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey, 1909-18

1842 Birthday - Abdul-Hamid II, 34th sultan of Turkey, lost Romania and Serbia

1840 Birthday - Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet and author, Fatherland-1872

1840 Birthday - Murad V, sultan of Turkey, 1876

1839 Event - Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed

1839 Event - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey

1839 Death - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53

1833 Event - Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty

1830 Birthday - Abdul Aziz, Istanbul Ottoman, 32nd sultan of Turkey, 1861-76

1828 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence

1826 Event - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey

1823 Birthday - Abdul-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey, 1839-61

1821 Event - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)

1811 Birthday - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary, est Robert College, Turkey

1808 Death - Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29

1808 Death - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies

1808 Event - Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey

1800 Event - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, and advance to Cairo

1792 Event - Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy

1791 Event - Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova

1789 Death - Abdul-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64

1787 Event - Turkey declares war on Russia

1785 Birthday - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey, 1808 - 1839, Westernizer/reformer

1784 Event - Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople

1779 Birthday - Mustafa IV, sultan of Turkey, 1807-08

1774 Death - Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56

1761 Birthday - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey, 1789-1808

1757 Death - Osman III, sultan of Turkey (1754-57), dies

1754 Death - Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58

1739 Event - Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade

1739 Event - Turkey and Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks

1738 Event - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey

1725 Birthday - Abdul-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey, 1774-89

1724 Event - Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

1718 Event - Emperor Karel VI, Turkey and Venice sign peace treaty

1717 Birthday - Mustapha III, Sultan of Turkey, 1757-74

1713 Event - Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty

1703 Death - Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39

1700 Event - Turkey declares war on Russia

1699 Event - Venice, Poland and Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey

1699 Birthday - Osman III, sultan, Turkey

1696 Birthday - Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman, Turkey, 1730-54, fought Austria and Russia

1695 Death - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies

1693 Death - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), dies at 51

1683 Event - Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey

1676 Event - Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw

1673 Birthday - Ahmed III, 23rd sultan, Turkey, 1703-30

1672 Event - Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz

1664 Event - Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vasvar

1664 Birthday - Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey, 1695-1703

1661 Death - Mehmed Koprulu, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies

1643 Birthday - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey, 1691-95

1642 Birthday - Mehmed IV, sultan, Turkey

1640 Death - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27

1639 Death - Mustapha I, sultan of Turkey (1622-23), dies

1622 Death - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies

1621 Event - Turkey and Poland signs Peace of Chotin

1620 Event - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)

1617 Death - Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17), dies

1612 Birthday - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey, 1623 - 1640, conquered Baghdad

1606 Event - Turkey and Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok

1604 Birthday - Osman II, sultan of Turkey, 1618-22

1603 Death - Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37

1601 Death - Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies

1595 Death - Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies

1590 Birthday - Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey, 1603-17

1574 Death - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50

1573 Event - Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty

1566 Death - Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71

1566 Birthday - Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey, 1595-1603

1546 Birthday - Murad III, sultan of Turkey, 1574-95

1540 Event - Venice/Turkey signs peace

1540 Event - Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary

1540 Event - Venice and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

1536 Event - France and Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel

1524 Birthday - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey, 1566-74

1520 Event - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey

1520 Death - Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53

1520 Death - Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies

1512 Death - Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies

1494 Birthday - Sulayman I, the Great, sultan of Turkey, 1520-66

1481 Death - Mohammed II, Fatih, sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies

1451 Death - Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies

1432 Birthday - Mehmed II, Sultan of Turkey, 1451 - 1481

1421 Death - Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies

1403 Death - Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42

1098 Event - After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey













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