1990_in_Turkey Knowpia

Events in the year 1990 in Turkey.^[1]

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8 August – In the aftermath of the Invasion of Kuwait, Turkey closes the pipeline carrying Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean.^[2]

18 September – Turkey and the United States extend their Defense and Economic Cooperation Agreement.^[2]

19 November – Turkey reduces its conventional forces in Europe as the Cold War draws to a close.^[2]

3 December – Chief of general staff General Necip Torumtay resigns.^[2]
5 December – Parliament votes to establish Parliamentary Human Rights Commission.^[2]
19 December – Government asks NATO for military assistance along the border with Iraq.^[2]

9 January – Cemal Süreya (born in 1931), poet
31 January – Muammer Aksoy (born in 1917), academic (assassinated)
7 March – Çetin Emeç (born in 1935), journalist (assassinated)
20 August – Ayla Dikmen (born in 1944), singer
4 September – Turan Dursun (born in 1934), author, theologist (assassinated)
6 October – Bahriye Üçok (born 1919), academic, politician (assassinated)
3 November – Kenan Erim (born in 1929), archaeologist
11 November – Sadi Irmak (born in 1904), MD and prime minister (38th government of Turkey)
24 November – Bülent Arel (born in 1919), musician (electronic)

^ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 377–387
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Heper, Metin (2009). Historical Dictionary of Turkey. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
^ Mackolik page