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On this day: February 21

What happened in the Turkic world on February 21? Famous people born and died on this day, key events and national days.

Events

  1. 2008 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq military operation

Births

  1. 1921 Ogtay Sadigzade Azerbaijani painter (1921–2014)
  2. 1926 Metaksia Simonyan Soviet actor (1926-1987)
  3. 1943 Lyudmila Ulitskaya Russian writer
  4. 1955 Emine Erdoğan First Lady of the Republic of Turkey (b. 1955)

Deaths

  1. 1944 Missak Manouchian Armenian resistance fighter and poet (1906-1944)
  2. 1989 Khalil Mammadov Soviet politician (1916–1989)
  3. 1997 Ziya Bunyadov Azerbaijani historian (1921-1997)
  4. 2012 Eldor Urazbayev film director and producer (1940-2012)
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Source: Wikidata and Wikipedia. Names link to the Wikipedia article.

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