What is Bülent Ecevit?
{{Infobox Prime Minister | name = Bülent Ecevit | image = Bülent Ecevit-Davos 2000 cropped.jpg | caption = | term_start = 11 January 1999 | term_end = 18 November 2002 | president = [[Ahmet Necdet Sezer]]<br>[[Süleyman Demirel]] | deputy = [[Devlet Bahçeli]]<br>[[Hüsamettin Özkan]]<br>[[Şükrü Sina Gürel]]<br>[[Mesut Yılmaz]]<br>[[Hikmet Uluğbay]] | predecessor = [[Mesut Yılmaz]] | successor = [[Abdullah Gül]] | term_start2 = 5 January 1978 | term_end2 = 12 November 1979 | president2 = [[Fahri Korutürk]] | deputy2 = [[Orhan Eyüboğlu]]<br>[[Turhan Feyzioğlu]]<br>[[Hikmet Çetin]]<br>[[Faruk Sükan]] | predecessor2 = [[Süleyman Demirel]] | successor2 = [[Süleyman Demirel]] | term_start3 = 21 June 1977 | term_end3 = 21 July 1977 | president3 = [[Fahri Korutürk]] | deputy3 = [[Orhan Eyüboğlu]] | predecessor3 = [[Süleyman Demirel]] | successor3 = [[Süleyman Demirel]] | order = 16th [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|5|28|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|11|5|1925|5|28|df=y}} | death_place = [[Ankara]], [[Turkey]] | party = [[Republican People's Party (Turkey)|Republican People's Party]]<br>(1957-1980)<br>[[Democratic Left Party (Turkey)|Democratic Left Party]]<br>(1989-2006) | spouse = [[Rahşan Ecevit]] | alma_mater = [[Robert College]]<br>[[School of Oriental and African Studies]] | signature = Bülent Ecevit signature.png }} '''Mustafa Bülent Ecevit''' (28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist. He served as the [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister of Turkey in 1974, 1977, 1978–79, and 1999–2002. He was the leader of the [[Republican People's Party (Turkey)|Republican People's Party (CHP)]] between 1972 and 1980, and in 1989 he became the leader of the [[Democratic Left Party (Turkey)|Democratic Left Party (DSP)]]. == Personal life == He was born in [[Istanbul]] to a middle-class family. Ecevit's father Fahri Ecevit was a professor