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
Leonidas Lent Hamline up the plan of separation. He provided US$25,000 of his own money to launch a school, which became Hamline University. A statue of the bishop, sculpted by Michael Price, Professor of Art, stands on campus. Hamline was the first editor of the long-running 19th century Cincinnati-based periodical, "The Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West". A number of his sermons are given in the "Works of L. L. Hamline, D. D.", edited by Rev. F. G. Hibbard, D. D., (two volumes, 1869). Leonidas Lent Hamline Leonidas Lent Hamline (pronounced as if it were "Hamlin") (1797 in Burlington, Connecticut – 1865)