It is true that, under its new prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, Turkey has made improvements.
Second, he has wrestled for power almost non-stop with the left-of-centre Bulent Ecevit, the current prime minister.
The government of Bulent Ecevit, who himself was visibly shaken by the devastation, appealed for urgent foreign help.
The centre-left party of the Turkish prime minister, Bulent Ecevit , won most seats in a general election.
The generals are annoyed by the refusal of Turkey's left-of-centre prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, to take action against them.
Bulent Ecevit, Turkey's prime minister, is the very man who ordered that invasion.
"We are happy that the death penalty is being lifted in Turkey, " embattled Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said after the vote.
Bulent Arinc, deputy prime minister in the mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) government, called for the series to be scrapped.
"Turkey supports the United States as a responsible ally and friend in its struggle against terrorism, " said Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit.
But the current prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, who has won popular plaudits for Mr Ocalan's capture, is well placed to break that habit.
Turkey's three-party coalition headed by Bulent Ecevit was set to fall, after a mutiny within his own party against the ailing 77-year-old prime minister.
One voice speaking for this nationalism at the moment is that of Bulent Ecevit, a deputy prime minister and leader of the Democratic Left party.
"I condemn this violence, " Turkish government spokesman Bulent Arinc told reporters.
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Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit's government has been accused of responding too slowly to the disaster, which has affected several provinces and scores of cities and towns.
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That is less likely if the health of Turkey's leftish prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, continues to decline, resulting in political paralysis in Turkey (see article).
One of them, Bulent Arinc, an urbane lawyer, says he will stand against Mr Kutan who is backed by Mr Erbakan at a party congress due next spring.
All the more so because the changes were voted through in the midst of a political crisis accelerated by the ill-health of the prime minister, Bulent Ecevit.
Indeed, Mr Cem made a dreadful start two-and-a-half years ago, when he became foreign minister in an awkward coalition led by the left-of-centre but nationalistic Bulent Ecevit.
The latest politician to take over the thankless task of coalition-building is Bulent Ecevit, a veteran leftist leader, who was named temporary prime minister on December 2nd.
No wonder that other ministers in the three-party coalition led by Bulent Ecevit, the leftish veteran whose unwise words set off the crisis in February, are feeling twitchy.
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The Syrian-registered minibus blew up only metres away from the Turkish border gate, where scores of civilians and humanitarian workers were congregated, Turkish deputy prime minister Bulent Arinc said.
Turkey's government said the Russian and Chinese vetoes were "deplorable, " while deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said Ankara "could not just stand by and look" as violence intensified in Syria.
"Some of our friends are with the opposition groups and we are heading to the area where the prisoners are to be released, " Bulent Yildirim told the Anadolu news agency.
The Spaniard returned to Helsinki in the small hours all smiles, to be followed a few hours later by the Turkish prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, who came as a summit guest.
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Mr. BULENT ALI REZA (Turkish Expert, Center for Strategic and International Studies): The military is very much back in the picture and whichever way you look at it that is an intervention.
And Turkey's left-leaning but nationalist prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, has made it clear that, thanks to Turkey's new status, Mr Ocalan, whose death sentence on treason charges was upheld by a Turkish court last month, cannot be hanged.
Speaking to reporters at the end of a Turkish Cabinet meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said the two sides had agreed on "the methods and principles, the basics and parameters" for working out the compensation, but said the amount to be paid had not yet been determined.
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