"Bülent Ecevit
May 28, 1925 - November 5, 2006
Five-times Prime Minister of Turkey who presided over his country’s invasion of northern Cyprus
FIVE times Prime Minister of Turkey over a period of almost 30 years from the mid-1970s, Bülent Ecevit is likely to be remembered principally for being in office in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus.
Despite being detained three times by the military for his criticism of their periodic interventions in Turkey’s politics, he at bottom shared its narrow ethnic nationalism and failed to see the areas of national life that needed reform to make Turkey a properly democratic society."
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