1967 in Turkey

Events in the year 1967 in Turkey.

Parliament

 * 13th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

 * President – Cevdet Sunay
 * Prime Minister – Süleyman Demirel
 * Leader of the opposition – İsmet İnönü

Ruling party and the main opposition

 * Ruling party – Justice Party (AP)
 * Main opposition – Republican People's Party (CHP)

Cabinet

 * 30th government of Turkey

Events

 * 3 January – Anadol, the first Turkish made car
 * 30 April – Reliance Party formed.
 * 12 May – Reliance Party was founded by Turhan Feyzioğlu
 * 4 June – Beşiktaş won the championship of Turkish football league
 * 22 July – The 7.1 Mudurnu earthquake affected the Bolu Province with high intensity shaking, killing 86.
 * 27 July – Earthquake in Pülümür (about 1000 km east of the 22 July earthquake)
 * 13 September – An agreement about transporting a group of Turks living in the island Adakale in Romania.
 * 17 September – More than 40 people died during a fight after the football match between Kayserispor and Sivasspor.
 * 31 October – Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş was arrested by the Greek Cypriots
 * 18 November – Following Greek attacks to Turkish villages in Cyprus Turkish air raids to Greek forces.
 * 29 November – Turkey and Greece agreed on a plan to halt the hostilities
 * 29 December – Turks in Cyprus formed their own government

Birth

 * 1 January – Mehmet Şimşek, government minister
 * 27 February – Volkan Konak, singer
 * 4 April – Ali Babacan, deputy prime minister
 * 4 November – Yılmaz Erdoğan, filmmaker
 * 20 November Teoman Yakupoğlu, singer

Undated

 * Murat Günel, Turkish medical scientist

Deaths

 * 2 February – Nedim Ökmen (born 1908), economist and politician
 * 9 March – Vâlâ Nureddin (born 1901), poet and columnist
 * 11 March – Yusuf Ziya Ortaç (born 1895), humorist and publisher
 * 17 April – Ali Fuat Başgil (born 1893), academic and politician
 * 17 May – Nurullah Ataç (born 1898), essayist and literary critic
 * 30 June – Yavuz Abadan (born 1905), academic
 * 20 July – Fikret Mualla Saygı (born 1904), painter
 * 23 July – Ahmet Kutsi Tecer (born 1901), poet and politician
 * 5 August – Mustafa İnan (born 1911), academic and civil engineer
 * 13 September – Şerif Muhiddin Targan (born 1892), musician