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Events in the year 2001 in Turkey.

Incumbents

  • President: Ahmet Necdet Sezer
  • Prime Minister: Bülent Ecevit

Events

  • July - 2001 sex strike for running water: 600 women in a village near the city of Siirt go on a sex strike in order to get a broken water system fixed.[1]

Deaths

  • 1 April - Ayhan Şahenk, Turkish businessman, founded Doğuş Holding (b. 1929)
  • 11 September - Hikmet Şimşek.
  • 22 September - Fikret Kızılok.

References

  1. ^ Firke, Mar, "Turkish women hold sex strike for water system repair, 2001", Global Nonviolent Action Database, Swarthmore College, April 13, 2014.
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