The following lists events in the year 2013 in Turkey.
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March
- 13 March - Kurdish rebels free eight Turkish citizens who have been held captive for two years.[5]
- 19 March - Two people are injured in bombings on Turkey's justice ministry and headquarters of the governing AK Party in Ankara. This was allegedly done by Kurdish militants.[6]
- 21 March - PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan makes historic calls for peace talks with Turkey after nearly 30 years of violent conflict.[7]
- 22 March - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologises to Prime Minister Erdogan for the killing of nine activists in a raid on Gaza and the US reports they are normalising relations.[8][9]
April
- 7 April - US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Turkey where discussions over relations with Israel and the Syrian civil war are expected to take place.[10]
June
- 3 June - Riot police fire tear gas on protesters continuing to demand the downfall of the current government in Istanbul and Ankara.[13]
- 19 January – Toktamış Ateş (born 1944), Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist, writer and professor of political sciences at Istanbul University
- 22 February – Behsat Üvez, singer-songwriter, 53[14] (lung cancer)
- 20 September – Ercan Aktuna
- 29 September – İsmet Kür (born 1916), educator, journalist, columnist and writer
- 6 November – Hayri Polat (born 1948), wrestler
- 25 December – Adnan Şenses