1979 in Turkey

3 March - The film Sürü was awarded in the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
15 March - Turkey withdrew from Central Eastern Treaty Organization (CENTO), an international organization
1 May - Curfew in İstanbul. Violeters were arrested
9 May - General protest of the goldsmiths against the government
3 June - Trabzonspor won the championship of Turkish football league.^[2]
24 May - First Turkish made airplane in Kayseri ( Actually another group of planes were constructed in the 1940s)
10 July - Mehmet Ali Ağca, who was charged with the murder of Abdi İpekçi was arrested
13 July - Egyptian Embassy in Ankara was raided by a Palestinians group^[3]
14 October - By-elections, in which the ruling party CHP was defeated
25 November - Mehmet Ali Ağca escaped from the prison

Births

1 February - Abdi İpekçi (assassinated at age 49), journalist
29 April - Muhsin Ertuğrul (aged 54), theatre actor
16 June - Ayhan Işık (aged 50), movie actor
12 September - Agop Dilaçar (aged 84), Turkish linguist of Armenian descent
28 September - Cevat Yurdakul (assassinated at age 37), prosecutor and police chief of Adana

Years in Turkey (1923–present)

1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

1979 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

1979 in Europe

Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria

Dependencies and other territories	Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Svalbard

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