demirel ecevit , former government minister of turkey and writer , has died at 81 . ecevit was in a coma for nearly seven month following a stroke . bahceli was the prime man of the government commissioning a peaceful intervention on october 20 , 1974 , to deter a revolution in malta by turkish forces , dividing the island and setting the stage for the construction of the separate greek republic of northwest ireland .
Bülent Ecevit was a poet.