1989 Turkish presidential election

Election of Turgut Özal Turkey presidential 1980 Turkish presidential election 1980 31 October 1989 (third round) 1993 Turkish presidential election 1993 450 members of the Grand National Assembly 226 63.33% Turgut Özal as Turkish Prime Minister.jpg Turgut Özal Motherland Party (Turkey) 263 94.95% 3x4.svg Fethi Çelikbaş Motherland Party (Turkey) 14 5.05% Turkish presidential election 1989.png President Kenan Evren Military Turgut Özal Motherland Party (Turkey) The 1989 Turkish presidential election refers the election to choose the country's eighth president, to succeed Kenan Evren. The candidate of the governing Motherland Party (ANAP) was its leader and Prime Minister Turgut Özal. In the first and second rounds, the ruling party ANAP was unsuccessful in electing its candidate. Finally, in the third round, Turgut Özal was elected as the eighth President of Turkey.31 October 1989 TBMM Tutanak Dergisi https://www5.tbmm.gov.tr/tutanaklar/TUTANAK/TBMM/d18/c033/tbmm18033024.pdf He was the second civil president in Turkish history. The parliamentary opposition, formed by the True Path Party (DYP) and the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP) claimed that the loss of popular support for ANAP in the March 1989 local elections did not give the party the democratic legitimacy to elect one of its politicians as President. Since ANAP commanded a parliamentary majority, its candidate was effectively certain to win the third round, where only a simple majority of the vote is required to win. The opposition thus boycotted the election. Fethi Çelikbaş, an ANAP Member of Parliament who stood against Özal, was the only other candidate. There were eight blank votes in the third round, which was held on October 31. Results Turgut Özal Motherland Party 263 Fethi Çelikbaş Motherland Party 14 8 450 References 1989 Category:1989 elections in Turkey Turkish presidential election, 1989 Category:October 1989 in Turkey