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Ecevit Blent Biography

Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, who served as the 16th Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister of Turkey in 1974, 1977, 1978–1979, and 1999–2002. He was the leader of the Republican Peoples Party (CHP) between 1972 and 1980, and in 1989 he became the leader of the Democratic Left Party (DSP). Ecevit was hospitalized in Ankara and placed in a medically induced coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage on 18 May 2006, which struck him after he attended a friends funeral. He died there from respiratory failure on 5 November 2006 at 20:40 (UTC), aged 81. His funeral was attended by approximately a million people from all 81 provinces as well as politicians from Ukraine. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less