| 1 Feb | National Football (soccer) player Tanju Çolak receives golden shoe in Monte Carlo |
| 18 Feb | Star Skater Catherina Witt of East Germany comes to Ankara |
| 1 Mar | Galatasaray beats Monaco 1-0 in first match of European Champion Clubs Cup quarter-final |
| 12 Mar | An Economical and Commercial team of Luxembourg in the leadership of Crown Prince Henry comes to Ankara |
| 15 Mar | Galatasaray ties with Monaco 1-1 and rises up to semi-finals |
| 16 Mar | President Helmut Kohl of Germany apologizes from Priminister Özal since the meeting could not be realised before the football match of Galatasaray and Monaco |
| 5 Apr | Galatasaray loses the semi-final match with Steau Bucarest of Romania 4-0 |
| 18 Apr | First tube-baby in Turkey at the Aegean University |
| 19 Apr | Galatasaray ties the second match with Steau Bucarest 1-1 and says goodbye to the championship |
| 29 Apr | Mrs Danielle Mitterand, wife of President of France, comes to Turkey to see the living standards of Pesmerges |
| 6 May | Turkey is at the 21th place in te Eurovision Song Contest |
| 12 May | English Crown Prince Charles visits Turkey |
| 14 May | Turkish National Wrestling Team gets the second place by receiving one gold, 5 silver and 3 bronz medals in the 32nd European Wrestling Championship |
| 20 May | Pilot Captain Alexander Zurev of USSR landed in Trabzon Airport without being caught to the Turkish radars and asked for refuge from USA |
| 21 May | Priminister Özal visits Tunusia |
| 26 May | 800 Turks in Bulgaria were sent to Belene Island |
| 11 Jun | 2,000 Turks who were expelled by Bulgaria arrived at Turkey |
| 12 Jun | Number of Turks migrated from Bulgaria is 12,000 |
| 3 Jul | First woman Supreme Court president in Turkey |
| 16 Jul | Number of Turks migrated from Bulgaria is 160,000 |
| 31 Jul | Turkey implements visa for the English visitors including the visitors with official passports |
| 17 Sep | Naim Süleymanoğlu receives 6 gold medals in the World and European Heavy Lifting Championships |
| 2 Oct | Inauguration of TRT3 and GAP Television channels |
| 31 Oct | Turgut Özal is 8th president of Turkey |
| 25 Nov | PKK massacres 21 people in Hakkari |
| 20 Dec | 86,297 Turks return to Bulgaria |
| 29 Dec | Süreyya Ağaoğlu, First woman lawyer of Turkey, dies |