* 1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.

* 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician ( b. 1925 )

As a result, in 1999 and 2001, the DSP government of Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit had to face two major economic crises that were caused mostly by the weak and loosely regulated banking sector ; the growing trade deficit ; and the devastating İzmit earthquake of 17 August 1999.

Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit had to call the renowned economist Kemal Derviş to tidy up the economy and especially the weak banking system so that a similar economic crisis would not happen again.

* June 21 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey ( 40th government since the founding of the Turkish republic, but fails to receive the vote of confidence )

* January 26 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey ( 37th government, partner MSP )

* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey ( 42nd government )

As Minister of State for Economic Affairs in Turkey when Bülent Ecevit was Prime Minister, Derviş was the architect of Turkey's successful three-year economic recovery program launched in 2001.

From 1973 to 1976, he was member of the economics faculty of the METU in Ankara, Turkey, and served also as an advisor to Bülent Ecevit during and after his Prime Ministerial duties.

On February 21, 2001, during a quarrel in a National Security Council meeting, he threw the constitutional code book at the Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit.

An inheritor party which still participates in Turkish democratic life, was established in 1984, as the Democratic Left Party by the former leader of CHP, Bülent Ecevit.

Bülent Ecevit

The secretary general of CHP Bülent Ecevit protested military intervention and resigned from his post.

Erdal İnönü ( internationally known pyhsicist ) was İsmet İnönü ’ s son and Rahşan Ecevit was Bülent Ecevit ’ s wife.

But the Welfare Party was banned in 1998, and during the 1990s the Democratic Left Party ( DSP ), led by former CHP leader Bülent Ecevit, gained popular support.

Kılıçdaroğlu set about immediately to reform the party and many critics of the day commented positively how the Kılıçdaroğlu period would see the People's Republican Party move more to the left as in the time of Bülent Ecevit, in contrast to the Baykal period which had moved CHP more closer to centre politics to such an extent that left-wing intellectuals had started to claim how the CHP was becoming a right-wing party.

* Bülent Ecevit ( 14 May 1972 – 30 October 1980 )

His place in the hearts of Turks can be exemplified using quotes from Bülent Ecevit, who was Prime Minister when Sunal died and Sertab Erener, who is a Eurovision award winner Turkish pop singer:

After the Susurluk scandal, former prime ministers Bülent Ecevit, and Mesut Yılmaz have confirmed the existence of JITEM.

Between the years 1978-1979, he was appointed to position of ministry of culture, by prime minister Bülent Ecevit.

He continued as a politician, however, serving as a deputy prime minister in a coalition led by Bülent Ecevit from 1999 to 2002.

Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (; 28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006 )

The Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort has commissioned and recorded many works by David Loeb, and the New York Consort of Viols has commissioned Bülent Arel, David Loeb, Daniel Pinkham, Tison Street, Frank Russo, Seymour Barab, William Presser, and Will Ayton, many of these compositions appearing on their 1993 CD Illicita Cosa.

* Hasan Bülent Paksoy, Tengri on Mars ( 2010 )

Connor fluctuated between Hamburg, Hannover and Berlin to work on her debut album, involving producers such as Bülent Aris, Toni Cottura, Diane Warren, and the production duo Rob Tyger and Kay Denar.

The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup d ' état.

Despite the appointment of famous names such as Bülent Korkmaz, Winfried Schäfer and Aleksandrs Starkovs, the club did not achieve any success and squandered large sums of money on unsuccessful signings.

He left Europe in 1984 to pursue a Ph. D. in Composition ( awarded in 1988 ) at Stony Brook University ( USA ), where he studied composition with Bülent Arel and electronic music with Daria Semegen.

One of the main reasons why SHP could not win an election was the division of the moderate left votes between SHP and DSP, the party of the former CHP leader Bülent Ecevit.

Before the 6th Party Congress of July 25, 2004, Bülent Ecevit announced that he would step down as party leader and leave active politics.

After Türker's succession, both Mustafa Sarıgül, the deputy of Şişli, and Rahşan Ecevit, the widow of Bülent Ecevit, resigned from the party and tried to create their own political movements.

The term Demokratik Sol ( Democratic Left ) was created by Bülent Ecevit in his late CHP period, as a mix of social democracy, democratic socialism, secularism and patriotism.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

Other performers include Bülent Ersoy, Zeki Müren, Müzeyyen Senar and Zekai Tunca.

The core of the party was formed from the reformist faction () of the Islamist Virtue Party, including people such as Abdullah Gül and Bülent Arınç.

“ Our goalkeeper Asım Tevfik, left-forwarder Emin Bülent and right midfielder Ali Sami Yen are commissioned for the task of determining new team colors.

Most of the luminaries in the field of electronic music ( and avant-garde music in general ) visited, worked, or studied at the Electronic Music Center, including Edgard Varèse, Halim El-Dabh, Bülent Arel, Mario Davidovsky, Charles Dodge, Pril Smiley, Alice Shields, Wendy Carlos, and Luciano Berio.

Hasan Bülent Paksoy is a Turkish historian ( b. 1948 in Ödemiş ) who earned his doctoral degree at St. Antony's College of the Oxford University in England with a grant from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom.

Many were former DSP supporters who were angry at the economic crisis that many blamed on the Ecevit government.

The Democratic Left Party () is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.

The political ban on Ecevit was lifted following a referendum in 1987.