Rahşan Ecevit 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. Rahşan Ecevit Rahşan Ecevit ("née" Aral; born 1923) is the widow of Turkish politician and former Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit. She was born in Bursa, Turkey to a family from Şebinkarahisar, a town in the north-eastern Giresun Province. Her father was Namık Zeki Aral, and her mother Zahide Aral. Their family came from Thessaloniki after the population exchange agreement
Şerif Turgut as the United Nations Head of Public Information Office for Central Liberia. During this time, she was involved in creation and management of information dissemination mechanisms in the fields such as demilitarization, social integration, political rehabilitation, elections and post conflict transition. She received more than ten national and international awards for her journalism achievement during the Bosnian War. In 2002, Turgut became an International Knight Fellow at Stanford University. Şerif Turgut featured in the documentary television series titled "Savaşı Anlatan Kadınlar" (literally: "Women War Correspondents") broadcast by the Turkish channel TRT on the International Women's Day in 2013. She was