Bülent Ecevit short-lived governments (formed by Mesut Yılmaz and Necmettin Erbakan, respectively), Ecevit became a deputy prime minister in the last government of Mesut Yılmaz. In 1998–99 he was briefly the caretaker Prime Minister in the run-up to the 1999 general elections (56th government of Turkey). In those elections – also helped by the fact that Abdullah Öcalan, head of the separatist (PKK) was apprehended in Kenya and flown to Turkey during this period – Ecevit's party gained the largest number of seats, leading to Ecevit's final term as Prime Minister in a coalition with the Motherland Party (, ANAP) of Mesut
Turgut Uyar Turgut Uyar Turgut Uyar (August 4, 1927 – August 22, 1985) was a Turkish poet. Turgut Uyar was born in Ankara on 4 August 1927 as the fifth of the six children of Fatma Hanım and Hayri Bey. His father served as a squadron leader in the army and his mother was a housewife. He studied primary school in different cities of Turkey. Then he went to military high school in Bursa. He married Yezdan Şener when he was going to university and he had three children, Semiramis, Tunga and Şeyda, from this marriage. He served as a personnel officer