Turkey

5/16 — Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.

3/29 — Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.

11/30 — Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.

10/23 — Première utilisation d'un avion en guerre : Guerre Italo-Turque : Un pilote italien décolle de Libye pour observer les lignes de l'armée turque

12/1 — La Crète, ayant obtenu l'autonomie de la Turquie après la Première Guerre des Balkans, est annexée par la Grèce.

9/4 — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.

3/22 — Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).

7/24 — The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.

9/9 — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.

10/13 — Ankara remplace Istanbul comme capitale de la Turquie.

10/29 — La Turquie devient une république après la dissolution de l'Empire ottoman.

3/3 — The fourteenth-century Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.

4/8 — Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.

1/30 — The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.

7/20 — The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.

7/31 — La Bulgarie signe un pacte de non-agression avec la Grèce et d'autres États de l'Antanti balkanique (Turquie, Roumanie, Yougoslavie).

12/27 — Le tremblement de terre de 7,8 Mw d'Erzincan secoue l'est de la Turquie avec une intensité maximale de Mercalli de XI ( Extrême ). Au moins 32,700 personnes ont été tuées.

2/25 — World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.

8/7 — Le gouvernement de l'Union soviétique a présenté une note à ses homologues turcs, réfutant leur souveraineté sur le Détroit des Dardanelles, marquant ainsi le début de la crise des Dardanelles.

3/18 — An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.

5/27 — En Turquie, un coup d'état écarte le Président Celâl Bayar et le reste du gouvernement démocratique de ses fonctions.

2/11 — Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.

3/28 — An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.

3/12 — The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Suleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.

7/20 — Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.

8/15 — The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh

3/13 — The Mw 6.7 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 498 were killed in this strike-slip event on the North Anatolian Fault.

8/17 — The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118-17,127 dead and 43,953-50,000 injured.

11/12 — The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.

12/19 — The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.

1/8 — Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.

2/10 — La France et la Belgique brisent la procédure de l'approbation silencieuse de l'OTAN concernant le timing des mesures de protection pour la Turquie en cas de guerre possible avec l'Irak.

10/3 — Les présidents de l'Azerbaïdjan, du Kazakhstan, du Kirghizistan et de la Turquie signent l'Accord de Nakhchivan sur l'établissement du Conseil turc.

10/10 — Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.

9/6 — Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.

5/13 — An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.

5/24 — A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.

2/11 — A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.

8/20 — 54 people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.

12/10 — Deux explosions à l'extérieur d'un stade de football à Istanbul, en Turquie, tuent 38 personnes et blessent 166 autres.

7/19 — Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.

4/6 — Basil, emperor of Trebizond (Turkey)