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Ex-PM Bulent Ecevit, fighting for life, dominated Turkish politics
0 Comments | AFP, May, 2006
ANKARA (AFP) — Turkey's former prime minister Bulent Ecevit, fighting for his life after suffering a brain hemorrhage, is a staunch nationalist and a symbol of probity in the country's corruption-plagued politics.
Once a leader of the Turkish left, he was also in his younger years a well-known poet and a translator of T.S. Eliot and Rabindranath Tagore.
He was just one week shy of his 81st birthday when he was taken to the GATA military hospital late on Thursday.
The centre-left politician dominated Turkish politics for nearly four decades, along with his conservative arch-rival Suleyman Demirel.
He retired in frail health after he lost the premiership and his Democratic Left Party (DSP) lost all its parliamentary seats in the November 2002...
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