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Biography of Bülent Ecevit
Name: Bülent Ecevit
Birth Date: May 28, 1925
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Instanbul, Turkey
Nationality: Turkish
Gender: Male
Occupations: prime minister, politician, writer
Bülent Ecevit
Turkish politician and writer Bülent Ecevit (born 1925) was alternately prime minister and leader of the opposition in the 1970s; since 1989 he has chaired the Democratic Left Party. He was made Turkey's prime minister for the fifth time in 1999.Bülent Ecevit was born in Istanbul on May 28, 1925 into a learned and cultured family. His father was a physician and member of Turkey's new parliament as a representative of the Republican People's Party (RPP); Ecevit's mother was a teacher and painter. He graduated from the American Robert College in Istanbul in 1944 and later studied at the universities of Ankara, London, and Harvard. Following an interlude as an official with the Press Attaché's office at the Turkish Embassy in London, he returned to Turkey in 1950 and joined Ulus, the daily of the RPP, as a literary critic. He would later hold positions of foreign news editor, managing …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…to avoid a divisive battle for succession within his ruling coalition for the largely symbolic post. Associated Organizations Associated Events Cyprus Crisis, 1974 Further Reading Ecevit is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in the World. For his views, see Ecevit's "Labor in Turkey as a New Social and Political Force," in K. H. Karpat and Contributors, Social Change and Politics in Turkey (1973) and Ecevit's "Left of Center: What Is It?" in K. H. Karpat (editor), Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East (2nd edition, 1982).Several books discuss recent Turkish politics and Ecevit's role therein: Geoffrey Lewis, Modern Turkey (1974); Jacob M. Landau, Radical Politics in Modern Turkey (1974); Ergun Özbudun, Social Change and Political Participation in Turkey (1976); Feroz Ahmad, The Turkish Experiment in Democracy, 1950-1975 (1977); C. H. Dodd, Democracy and Development in Turkey (1979); Walter F. Weiker, The Modernization of Turkey (1981); and Frank Tachau, Turkey: The Politics of Authority, Democracy and Development (1984).
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