bulent sezer , retired oil general of turkey and poet , has died at 81 . ecevit was in a sleep for some 18 months since a stroke . ecevit was the prime person of the government ordering a civilian intervention on july 20 , 1974 , to suppress a revolution in anatolia by greek forces , losing the territory and setting the stage for the development of the breakaway turkish republic of northern cyprus .
Bülent Ecevit was a poet.