ANKARA, Nov 6: Five-time Turkish prime minister Bulent Ecevit, 81, died late Sunday at the military medical academy here where he had been hospitalized since May with a stroke from which he never fully recovered, doctors said.
Dr. Mucahit Pehlivan of the GATA academy, where Ecevit was hospitalized on May 18, made the announcement to state television and the semi-official Anatolia news agency.
Zeki Sezer, chairman of the Democratic Left Party, which Ecevit's wife Rahsan founded in 1985 and which Ecevit led until retiring from politics in 2002, said the former leader of the Turkish left died at 10:40 pm (2040 GMT).—AFP
