Rahşan Ecevit

Rahşan Ecevit


Leader of the Democratic Left Party
In office 14 November 1985 – 13 September 1987
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Bülent Ecevit
Chairman of the Democratic Left People's Party
In office January 17, 2010 – June 12, 2010
Preceded by	Hulki Cevizoğlu
Succeeded by	party closed
Personal details
Born	1923 (age 92–93) Bursa, Turkey
Political party	Democratic Left Party (1985-2009), Democratic Left People's Party (2009-2010), Republican People's Party (2010-)
Spouse(s)	Bülent Ecevit (1946-2006)
Alma mater	Robert College
Profession	Politician, writer & painter

Rahşan Ecevit (née Aral; born 1923) is the spouse of the late Turkish politician and former prime minister Bülent Ecevit.

She was born in Bursa, Turkey to a family from Şebinkarahisar, a town in the northeastern Giresun Province. Her father was Namık Zeki Aral, and her mother Zahide Aral. Their family came from Thessaloniki after the population exchange agreement in 1920. Rahşan graduated from the American high school Robert College in İstanbul. She married her classmate Bülent Ecevit in 1946.

Following the military coup in 1980 led by General Kenan Evren, her husband was imprisoned and was suspended from active politics for life. Bülent Ecevit's party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), was closed down. On November 14, 1985, Rahşan founded a centre-left social democratic party, the Democratic Left Party (DSP) and led it until her husband's ban from politics was lifted in 1987.

Rahşan Ecevit was the vice president of the Democratic Left Party and responsible for the party's organization between 1989 and 2004. She became the leader of the new Democratic Left People's Party (DSHP) on January 17, 2010, when the DSP seemed to have no chance anymore to win seats in elections.^[1] After Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu had become the leader of the CHP and stopped the right trend she disbanded her new party and with many members joined the now rather social democratic CHP.

On November 5, 2006, she lost her husband following an almost 6-month long medically induced coma.

References

↑ "DSHP'de Cevizoğlu gitti, Ecevit geldi" (in Turkish). cnnturk. 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2010-01-17.

Party political offices
Preceded by Party founded	Leader of the Democratic Left Party (DSP) 1985–1987	Succeeded by Bülent Ecevit
Preceded by Hulki Cevizoğlu	Leader of the Democratic Left People's Party (DSHP) 2010	Succeeded by Party closed

Leaders of the Democratic Left Party

Rahşan Ecevit Bülent Ecevit Necdet Karababa Zeki Sezer Masum Türker Önder Aksakal

Party leaders in Turkey

Before 1960	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Kâzım Karabekir Fethi Okyar İsmet İnönü Nuri Demirağ Celâl Bayar Hikmet Bayur Adnan Menderes Osman Bölükbaşı Ekrem Hayri Üstündağ Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu

1960–80	Ekrem Alican Ragıp Gümüşpala Ahmet Oğuz Mehmet Ali Aybar Süleyman Demirel Alparslan Türkeş Turhan Feyzioğlu Hüseyin Balan Mustafa Timisi Ferruh Bozbeyli Behice Boran Necmettin Erbakan Bülent Ecevit Kemal Satır

1980–present	Turgut Sunalp Turgut Özal Necdet Calp Erdal İnönü Ahmet Nusret Tuna Cezmi Kartay Yıldırım Avcı Ahmet Tekdal Hüsamettin Cindoruk Aydın Güven Gürkan Ülkü Söylemezoğlu Rahşan Ecevit Mehmet Yazar Necdet Karababa Yıldırım Akbulut Mesut Yılmaz Doğu Perinçek Tansu Çiller Murat Karayalçın Deniz Baykal Hikmet Çetin Devlet Bahçeli Recai Kutan Altan Öymen Ahmet Türk Recep Tayyip Erdoğan İsmail Cem İpekçi Zeki Sezer Yaşar Nuri Öztürk Masum Türker Süleyman Soylu Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Ahmet Davutoğlu Binali Yıldırım Selahattin Demirtaş

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 55333943 LCCN: n2002053595

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Rahşan Ecevit

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