| 30 Jan | USA supports Turkey for Caspian Sea Fuel Pipe-lines to pass through Turkey |
| 15 Feb | Northern part of Iraq is phisically divided between Talabani and Barzani forces |
| 20 Mar | Turkish Armed Forces goes into northern Iraq for largest military operation since Cyprus crisis with 35,000 soldiers |
| 21 Mar | 200 PKK militants are killed and 3000 of them are surrounded in Northern Iraq |
| 26 May | PKK kills a mother and her 4 children in Iğdır |
| 16 Jun | PKK militants murder 20 people in Tunceli |
| 8 Aug | Turkey files a complaint in the United Nations against Greece for supporting PKK |
| 29 Aug | Flood in Rize kills 10 people |
| 1 Sep | World Peace Day is celebrated in İstanbul |
| 7 Sep | PKK kills 9 mineworkers in Hatay |
| 1 Oct | Earthquake of 6 Richter scale kills 90 and injures 212 in Dinar, Afyon |
| 4 Nov | Flood in İzmir kills 57 people |
| 15 Nov | Turkish National Football (Soccer) Team ties with Swedend and goes to finals for European Championship | |
| 29 Jan | A Turkish cargo ship runs into Kardak rocks in the Aegean Sea which brings Turkey and Greece to the brink of war |
| 4 Apr | Yaşar Kemal, Turkish Author, is given Mediterranean Literature Prize by Mediterranean Literature Center |
| 17 May | Famous Author Yaşar Kemal is given International Catalonia Prize in Barcelona, Spain |
| 13 Jun | President Fidel Castro of Cuba arrives at İstanbul for Habitat II meeting |
| 10 Jul | Türksat 1C Satellite is placed in its orbit |
| 27 Jul | Melih Uzunyol, TRT cameraman, dies of heart attack during the explosion in Atlanta, Georgia, USA Olympics |
| 10 Aug | Priminister Erbakan visits Iran and Syria |
| 11 Sep | USA arms 2000 Peshmerges and establishes an army in the northern part of Iraq |
| 16 Sep | Karahan Çantay takes the third place during the first World Man Beauty Contest |
| 21 Sep | Tina Turner, Grandmother of Rock'n Roll, gives a concert to 27,000 people in İstanbul |
| 24 Sep | Zeki Müren, Art Sun of Turkey, dies in İzmir during a program |
| 27 Sep | Funeral ceremony for Zeki Müren |
| 27 Dec | 2 skiers are killed in an avalanche in Palandöken, Erzurum | |
| 3 Feb | NATO General Secretary Solana comes to Ankara |
| 27 Feb | Newspaper Hürriyet Quality Certificate of ISO 9001 |
| 1 Mar | Prohibition of smoking in the TCDD Trains |
| 11 Mar | Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Ekber Velayeti of Iran is warned not to interfere interior businesses of Turkey |
| 15 May | The married women use their family names along with their husband's family name |
| 16 May | Yaşar Kemal receives Publishers' Union Prize of Germany |
| 22 May | Halil Mutlu gets 3 gold medals in European Heavy Lifting Championship |
| 12 Jun | Turkish Television Channel D is to be first to go on internet |
| 10 Sep | Beginning of First World Air Games in Selçuk, İzmir |
| 2 Oct | Inauguration of Glass Pyramid in Antalya by President Demirel |
| 15 Oct | Flood in İstanbul: 7 fatalities |
| 9 Dec | Minister of Defense of Israel visits Turkey for the first time |
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