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Turkish sorrow at Ecevit death
POSTED: 1112 GMT (1912 HKT), November 6, 2006
ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) -- Bulent Ecevit, the Turkish politician, poet and journalist whose career spanned nearly half a century, has died aged 81.
Ecevit died on Sunday night in a military hospital in Ankara, where he had been in a coma since suffering a stroke on May 18, the hospital said in a written statement. His lungs collapsed, it said.
Soon after the news was made public, thousands of mourners gathered outside the hospital in a show of grief over the death of the former prime minister and former member of Turkey's Parliament whose secularist leanings and intellect helped shape his country's politics."
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