Word: biilent
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...contrast, ebullient, shirt-sleeved Biilent Ecevit, campaigning in the Anatolian city of Eskisehir, charged that Turkish foreign policy was "controlled by the U.S. Congress," and denounced government corruption. A onetime graduate student at Harvard, former Premier Ecevit, 50, plunged into the throngs to press the flesh U.S.-style. For the first time in Turkey's history, women were a noticeable part of the youthful crowds at his rallies...
...same disintegration affected the whole island as a result of the fierce fighting between Turks and Greeks. Few utilities were functioning fully. The tally sheets of death and destruction were still being added up, and islanders on both sides were struggling to comprehend the "new realities" that Turkish Premier Biilent Ecevit warned of in the wake of the Turkish invasion. Thousands of residents-both Turkish and Greek-had been turned into refugees...
...wouldn't even kill an ant," was the way Turks described Biilent Ecevit, 49, their Premier. His biographer called him a "romantic, artistic, even mystical man." The son of a respected painter, Ecevit (pronounced Edge-a-vit) is a translator of the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound into Turkish and a poet in his own right. In fact, one of his poems is about the ambivalent attraction between Greeks and Turks: "No matter that we are not of the same racial blood;/ The wild spirit flowing in our veins is the same./ We have cursed each other...
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