Word: ecevit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chatted idly outside Istanbul's Blue Mosque. Otherwise, the armed forces tried to keep discreetly out of sight as much as possible. Along the 300-mile road between Istanbul and Ankara, foreigners found few troops in evidence. Both deposed Prime Minister Demirel and Opposition Leader Bülent Ecevit remained under detention at a military resort hotel in Hamzaköy, near Gallipoli. They could receive telephone calls but refused to talk politics. Ecevit told one caller: "I'm sorry, the general in charge here has asked me not to discuss the present situation...
Striking quickly in the night, the army detained 120 of the country's leading politicians, government officials and trade union leaders. Demirel, leader of the Justice Party, was taken under escort to a military camp in Gallipoli, southwest of Istanbul, as was Bülent Ecevit, head of the opposition Republican People's Party. Martial law, which was already in effect in 20 of Turkey's 67 provinces, was imposed nationwide. A curfew was declared, and frontiers and airports were closed. The generals dissolved parliament, banned all political and trade union activity, and announced that they would...
...near paralysis of government that forced the military's hand. With Demirel unable to muster a majority in parliament and with Ecevit anxious to foil him at every turn, the legislature has not been able to enact a law for at least six months. Its efforts to elect a new President have stretched unsuccessfully-and somewhat comically-over more than 100 ballots. Even a package of antiterrorist measures supported by both men has sunk into the partisan quicksand. Demirel's right-center party could probably win a majority if Turks went to the polls tomorrow, but Ecevit...
...assumed power with the help of an underground revolutionary group and was running things its own way. Sadly, the country's political leaders have been unable to unite completely in the face of the terrorist tide. Premier Süleyman Demirel and Opposition Leader Bülent Ecevit have distrusted each other for years. Late last week the two leaders huddled privately and managed to agree to support a limited package of new antiterrorist legislation. Otherwise, they have so far refused even to cooperate in the election of a new President, a post that remains unfilled after more than...
Meanwhile, there seemed little likelihood of the political unity that the memorandum seemed to call for. The personal animosity between Demirel and the intellectual Ecevit, who have exchanged the premiership six tunes since 1974, seems to rule out a so-called grand coalition alliance between Demirel's right-of-center Justice Party and Ecevit's left-of-center Republican People's Party. Yet there was one sign of a benefit from the memorandum. As the Assembly last week began discussing tougher antiterrorism legislation, Ecevit announced that his party would support the package with only minor changes...