This Day In Turkey: January

Aydınlı, Cappadocia under snow. © Emily Rice Johnson

1 January

1923

• The Turkish Idman Associations Alliance (today the Turkish Football Federation), Turkey’s first football federation, was founded.

1929

• Haydarpaşa Port was nationalized along with the Anatolian railway line.

1985

• The Value Added Tax (VAT), known in Turkey as Katma Değer Vergisi (KDV), was intr…