Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Vocational School was established in accordance with the decision given in the meeting on 5 May 2005. Since the establishment of the Faculty of Dentistry on 13 February 2008 and the Faculty of Fine Arts on 26 August 2008, there have been 13 Faculties, 3 Schools, 7 Vocational Schools and a State Conservatory in Zonguldak Karaelmas University. The university was named after Turkish Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit in 2012. The university is a member of the Caucasus University Association. Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Bülent Ecevit University (, formerly Zonguldak Karaelmas University) is a state university located in Zonguldak, Turkey. The
Bülent Ecevit T. S. Eliot, and Bernard Lewis into Turkish. Ecevit, who also studied at the American Robert College, one of the most prestigious high schools in Istanbul, was successful in these literary endeavors despite never having graduated from a university, a fact that also prevented him from ever running for the Presidency of the Turkish Republic. Ecevit was hospitalized in Ankara and placed in a medically induced coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage on 18 May 2006, which struck him after he attended a friend's funeral. He died there from respiratory failure on 5 November 2006 at 20:40 (UTC), aged 81.