Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.

Military coup in Turkey.

Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military

An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.

Turkish destroyer Ship TCG is crippled causing 27 deaths and injuries, by missiles negligently launched by U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.

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

Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.

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

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.

The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.

France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.

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

After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.