Sherry Sun
Ms. Cipolla
CPW 4U1
June 06, 2016
World War I
1920 - Treaty of Sevres
Ottoman empire is greatly reduced, limited
only to a small part of Anatolia
1922 - Greek occupation ends
No foreign power remains in Turkey
October 23, 1923 - Republic of Turkey born
- Capital moved from Constantinople to Ankara
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is president
- End of 600 years old Ottoman Empire
1926 - Boundary with Iraq is
settled with help from League of
Nations
World War II
1945 - Turkey joins the
United Nations
1947 - Truman Doctrine
Large-scale military and economic
aid from United States of America
1949 - Turkey joined Council of Europe
An organization promoting human rights, democracy, economic development and certain regulatory functions
1952 - Turkey joins the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO)
1954 - American forces
allowed to station in
military facilities
1960 - Coup d'état
Turkish military officers overthrew the
elected democrat party
1961 - joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
An international economic organisation to stimulate world trade andeconomic progress
1967 - War with Greece over
Cyprus is narrowly avoided
1973 - Joined the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE)
The world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization.
Armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups wanting to separate from Turkey to have autonomy.
1978 - PKK was founded
1984 - PKK announced Kurdish uprising and insurgency
1999 - PKK announced cease-fire
2004 - armed conflict resumed
2013 - Jailed leader of PKK, Abdullah Öcalan announced the end of armed struggle and a ceasefire
2015 - PKK cancelled their 2013 ceasefire
2016 - Bomb attack on military convoy inAnkara kills 38 people
1987 - First submitted application to
be part of European Union (EU)
1995 - Signed Custom Unions agreement
1999 - Received candidature for full membership
2011- present - Syrian Migrant Crisis
2015 - EU strikes deal (Turkey restricts flow of migrants into Europe, in return for €3 billion and concessions on stalled EU accession talks)
As of March 2016 : 2,748,367 registered refugees
2012 - Erdogan is elected as president
2016 - German parliament
declares the killing of Armenians
by Ottoman Turkish forces during
WW1 as genocide
Republic of Turkey
Political Timeline
20th - 21st Century
- of the -
2016
1900
1925
1950
1975
2000
Kurdish conflict
1945 - Enters WWII on Allied side
1930 - Constantinople becomes Instanbul