2017 in Turkey

The following lists events that happened during 2017 in Turkey.

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1 January – A terrorist attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul leaves 39 people dead.^[1]
2 January – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack on the nightclub yesterday.^[2]
3 January – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey votes to extend the state of emergency by 3 months after the attempted coup last year.^[3]
5 January – A car bomb explodes in İzmir perpetrated by TAK, killing 2 people.^[4]
13 January – President Erdogan vows that Turkish troops will remain in Cyprus in perpetuity and describes proposed terms of a rotating presidency to be unacceptable.^[5]
14 January – The Parliament of Turkey approves two constitutional amendments to expand the president's power to appoint new legislation and select the cabinet.^{[citation needed]}
26 January – Greece refuses to extradite eight soldiers accused of playing a role in the coup attempt last year.^[6]
28 January – President Erdogan signs a 100 million pound deal with British Prime Minister Theresa May over the construction of fighter jets.^[7]
30 January – In the capital of Ankara, 269 people are put on trial after being charged for their roles in the coup attempt last year.^[8]
31 January – The Eurasia Tunnel, which combines the Asian and European continents with a black tunnel, has started uninterruptedly.^[9]

5 February – Over 800 suspected ISIL members are arrested by the Turkish police.^[10]
8 February – 4400 public servants are dismissed in another purge following the attempted coup last year.^[11]
9 February – A Russian airstrike accidentally killed 3 Turkish troops in al-Bab, Syria.^[12]
11 February – Abdulgadir Masharipov is charged with murder in relation to the night club shooting at the start of the year and remains incarcerated.^[13]
14 February – Over 800 people are detained by police due to allegations of them being members of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).^[14]
17 February – 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held in Erzurum.
22 February – Turkey lifts the ban on female army soldiers wearing the hijab.^[15]
28 February – A trial of 330 suspects in last year's attempted coup opens as the largest trial to date.^[16]

4 March - A Syrian fighter jet crashed in Hatay Province near the Syria–Turkey border.^[17]
11 March – Dutch authorities withdrew landing permissions for a Turkish minister following his support for the referendum in April. President Erdogan calls the Dutch authorities "Nazi remnants".^[18] In response, Dutch authorities expel another minister from Rotterdam to the border with Germany.^[19]
13 March – Dutch ambassador to Turkey, Cornelis Van Rij, was expelled from Ankara following a Dutch ban on Turkish ministers speaking at pro-Erdogan rallies.^[20]
29 March – Prime Minister Yildirim declares an end to Operation Euphrates Shield in Syria but says an operation will follow under a different name.^[21]

16 April – The 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum occurred.
17 April – President Erdoğan makes favorable statements on the reinstatement of capital punishment, announcing he would discuss the possibility with Devlet Bahçeli of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the then-Turkish prime minister Binali Yıldırım.^[22]
19 April – The 2017 Turkvision Song Contest was held in Ankara.
29 April – The 2017 block of Wikipedia in Turkey

23 June – It is reported that the Turkish education ministry announced the removal of evolution from the secondary school curriculum.^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]

4 July – "Önce Vatan" Party was shut down by the Constitutional Court of Turkey.^[27]

22 September – Kadir Topbaş resigned from his position as the Mayor of Istanbul^[28]