ENG - Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (May 28, 1925 in Istanbul – November 5, 2006 in Ankara) was a Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, who was leader of Republican People's Party, later of the Democratic Left Party and four-time Prime Minister of Turkey.
Ecevit was elected into the Turkish parliament for the first time in 1957. He was a member of the Establishment Parliament between 1960 and 1961. Ecevit served as the Minister of Labour between 1961 and 1965 contributing to the acceptance of right to strike and collective agreement. In 1966 he became the secretary general of the Republican People's Party (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP). In 1971 he resigned from the post as a protest to the party decision to support the transitional government established by a ...
Rahşan Ecevit, the first chairperson of the Democratic Left Party, or DSP, and the wife of late Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit, said she had resigned from the party. "I resign from my party of which I was former chairperson until the current leadership decides to return to the line of [Bülent] Ecevit," Rahşan Ecevit stated in a written statement yesterday. Emrehan Halıcı, one of the party’s 11 deputies in Parliament, resigned just after Ecevit. Recai Birgün and Mücahit Pehlivan, close aides to Ecevit, are also expected to quit the party. The resignations came after ...
