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Mustafa Blent Ecevit was a Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, who served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister of Turkey in 1974, 1977, 197879, and 19992002. He was the leader of the Republican Peoples Party between 1972 and 1980, and in 1989 he became the leader of the Democratic Left Party .

He was born in Istanbul to a middleclass family. Ecevits father Fahri Ecevit was a professor in Ankara University. His mother, Fatma Nazl, was among the first women in Turkey to paint professionally. Ecevit said his mother was of Bosniak ancestry and his father may have been of Kurdish ancestry.

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