Ecevit

[e-je-veet]

noun

1. Bülent 1925–2006, Turkish journalist and political leader: prime minister 1974, 1978–80, 1998–2002.

Ecevit

/ ˈɛʃəvɪt /

noun

1. Bülent (ˈbuːlənt). 1925–2006, Turkish politician and journalist: prime minister of Turkey (1974, 1977, 1978–79, 1998–2002)

Example Sentences

Dilara's father Ecevit, 50, says when he told their neighbour to turn the music down at 04:00 one morning in January, she came out with a knife.

Read more on BBC

The crisis was said to have been set off by a disagreement between Turkey’s president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, and prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, over the pace of anticorruption efforts; banks and financial markets reacted badly to the tiff.

Read more on New York Times

“Ecevit, then the prime minister, called Dervis to come and help the country as a minister,” M. Hakan Yavuz, a political science professor at the University of Utah and an expert on Turkey, said by email.

Read more on New York Times

“My salary is gone in two days and then I live on the credit card,” said Bahar Ecevit, 24, a clerk in a clothing store.

Read more on New York Times

Two of its members, Merve Dasdemir and Erdinc Ecevit, both of Turkish descent, joined thanks to his Facebook post.

Read more on New York Times