Ecevit II cabinet

Ecevit II
40th Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
choice	5th June 1977
Appointed by	President Fahri Korutürk
education	June 21, 1977
The End	July 21, 1977
Duration	0 years and 30 days
predecessor	Cabinet Demirel IV
successor	Cabinet Demirel V
composition
Party (s)	CHP
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	213/450

The Ecevit II cabinet was the 40th government of Turkey , which was headed by Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit from June 21, 1977 to July 21, 1977 .

In the elections in September 1977 , Bülent Ecevit and the social democratic Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) won 41.4 percent of the vote, narrowly missing an absolute majority. A CHP minority cabinet followed. Suleyman Demirel's conservative-liberal Adalet Partisi (AP) received 36.4 percent of the vote. The right-wing parties lost votes and the Islamic Millî Selamet Partisi also lost dramatically.

The years that followed, up to the military coup in 1980, were dominated by the ongoing rivalry between Ecevit and Demirel, who repeatedly tried to rule with minority cabinets, and the street terror of right-wing extremist groups. In 1977 alone, more than 800 people were killed by right-wing extremist terror. In the meantime, the Alevis religious community was also caught in the crosshairs of the Gray Wolves .

Ecevit's government was short-lived. The Prime Minister lost a vote of confidence in July 1977. Demirel forged a new edition of the "Cabinet of the Nationalist Front" .

minister

40th Government of the Republic of Turkey
Ecevit II Cabinet - June 21, 1977 to July 21, 1977

title	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit	CHP
Deputy Prime Minister	Orhan Eyüboğlu	CHP
Minister of State
	Turan Güneş	CHP
	Lütfi Doğan	CHP
	Kenan Bulutoğlu	CHP
Minister of Justice	Selçuk Erverdi	CHP
Defense Minister	Hasan Esat Işık	CHP
Interior minister	Necdet Ugur	CHP
Foreign minister	Gündüz Ökçün	CHP
Finance minister	Besim Üstünel	CHP
Minister of Education	Mustafa Üstündağ	CHP
Minister for Public Works	Abdülkerim Zilan	CHP
Minister of Commerce	Ziya Müezzinoğlu	CHP
Minister for Health and Welfare	Celal Ertuğ	CHP
Minister for Customs and Monopolies	Mehmet Can	CHP
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock	Fikret Gündoğan	CHP
Transport Minister	Erol Çevikçe	CHP
Minister of Labor	Bahir Ersoy	CHP
Minister for Social Security	Hayrettin Uysal	CHP
Industry Minister	Tarhan Erdem	CHP
Minister for Culture and Tourism	Altan Öymen	CHP
Minister of Construction and Settlement	Erol Tuncer	CHP
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Neşet Akmandor	CHP
Minister for Village Affairs and Cooperatives	Ali Topuz	CHP
Forest Minister	Vecdi İlhan	CHP
Minister for Youth and Sport	Yüksel Çakmur	CHP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East ), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 40th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on March 28, 2019