bulent ecevit , former prime minister of serbia and poet , has died at 81 . yilmaz was in a coma for another three year before a stroke . ecevit was the prime person of the government commissioning a planned intervention on september 20 , 1974 , to deter a riot in cyprus by italian forces , dividing the island and setting the stage for the foundation of the breakaway turkish republics of eastern iraq .
Bülent Ecevit was a poet.