The Grand National Assembly of Turkey TBMM is founded in Ankara.

Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.

Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.

Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.

Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.

Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.

While ''en route'' from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.

Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.