First DSP chair Rahşan Ecevit leaves the party
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Hürriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 05, 2009 00:00
ANKARA - Rahşan Ecevit, the first chairperson of the Democratic Left Party, or DSP, and the wife of late Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit, said she had resigned from the party.
"I resign from my party of which I was former chairperson until the current leadership decides to return to the line of [Bülent] Ecevit," Rahşan Ecevit stated in a written statement yesterday. Emrehan Halıcı, one of the party’s 11 deputies in Parliament, resigned just after Ecevit. Recai Birgün and Mücahit Pehlivan, close aides to Ecevit, are also expected to quit the party.
The resignations came after Masum Türker was elected chairman of the party despite Ecevit’s opposition. "It should not happen this way. I am very sorry," Türker said in an interview with broadcaster NTV yesterday. "We are institutionally and practically loyal to Ecevit, and we’ll remain to be so."
The resignations came after Masum Türker was elected chairman of the party despite Ecevit’s opposition. "It should not happen this way. I am very sorry," Türker said in an interview with broadcaster NTV yesterday. "We are institutionally and practically loyal to Ecevit, and we’ll remain to be so."