| 1 Jan | Turkish Daily News chooses General İsmail Hakkı Karadayıoğlu as 'Man of the Year' |
| 2 Jan | TV channel NTV choses President Süleyman Demirel as 'Man of the Year' |
| 3 Jan | 356,444 traffic accidents in 11 months of 1997 |
| 4 Jan | Inflation rate for 1997 is 99% |
| 17 Jan | Constitution court closes Political Welfare Party |
| 11 Feb | 79 casinos in Turkey are closed down |
| 17 Feb | First 12 women fighter pilot lieutenants are in service for Turkish Air Force |
| 12 Nov | Abdullah Öcalan, Leader of PKK, is apprehended in Italy |
| 16 Nov | Turkish people boycouts Italy |
| 20 Nov | Italy releases Abdullah Öcalan | |
| 31 Jan | Barış Manço, pop singer of Turkey, dies |
| 15 Feb | Murdere of 30,000 people PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan is captured in Nairobi, Kenya and brought to İstanbul to be tried |
| 23 Feb | Strong wind in Istanbul: 6 students are kiiled |
| 25 Mar | Sirbia declares war against NATO and Turkey, officially took part in a war since long time ago |
| 26 Jul | Airport police of Salt Lake, Utah, USA unbelievably tortured a Turkish woman |
| 11 Aug | Last Solar Solstice of the century was best viewed from Turkey |
| 17 Aug | An earthquake of 7.8 Richter scale in İzmit: 17,000 fatalities and 25,000 injured phisically and mentally |
| 11 Oct | CNN-Turk is in service |
| 15 Oct | President Demirel goes to Kosova |
| 12 Nov | Second strong earthquake in Düzce with 7.2 Richter Scale: many fatalities |
| 16 Nov | President Clinton of USA and his family visit earthquake areas in Turkey | |
| 8 Jan | Ministry of Culture of Turkey buys Pierre Loti's collection of 525-page letters |
| 16 Mar | Galatasaray beats Spanish Mallorca 4-1 in UEFA Cup |
| 23 Mar | Galatasaray beats Spanish Mallorca again 2-1 and rises to the semi-finals |
| 30 Mar | Efes-Pilsen, basketball team, is in semi-finals of Europes final4s |
| 31 Mar | Priminister Ecevit visits India |
| 20 Apr | Galatasaray ties 2-2 with Leeds United of England who lost the previous match in İstanbul 2-0. Galatasaray is in the final match. |
| 27 Apr | Ahmet Necdet Sezer is the 10th president of Turkey |
| 16 May | Galatasaray get the UEFA Cup after the match with Arsenal of England |
| 20 May | During the 33rd European Boxing Competition in Tampere, Finland, Turkish boxers won 2 gold medals |
| 30 May | Turkish Football trainer (coach) Fatih Terim goes to Fiorentina Football Team in Italy for coaching |
| 6 Jun | Earthquake in Çerkes, Çankırı with 5.9 Richter Scale: 3 fatalities, 81 injured, thousands of houses destroyed |
| 17 Jun | Pope John-Paul II meets Muslim Leader of Turkey Yılmaz |
| 19 Jun | Turkish Football team beats Belgium 2-0 and rises to quarter finals for the first time in the European Football Championship |
| 24 Jun | Turkey loses the football match against Portugal and says good-bye to the championship |
| 8 Jul | First statesman in the history of Republic of Turkey, State Minister Fikret Ünlü, climbs to the summit of Mount Ararat |
| 24 Aug | Galatasaray beats Real Madrid 2-1 and wins the super cup of UEFA |
| 31 Aug | Galatasaray takes the fourth place in the world's football classification |
| 1 Sep | Turkish Football team beats Moldova 2-0 and gets a good start for 2002 World Cup Group Elimination |
| 15 Sep | Halil Mutlu breaks 3 records and receives gold medals in the Sydney Olympics and wins the title of World and Olympic Champion in Heavy Lifting |
| 19 Sep | Turkey sees the most important energy crisis |
| 26 Sep | Hamza Yerlikaya, wrestler, gets gold medal in Sydney Olympics Championship | |