Cabinet Ecevit III

Ecevit III
42nd Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
choice	5th June 1977
Appointed by	President Fahri Korutürk
education	5th January 1978
The End	November 12, 1979
Duration	1 year and 311 days
predecessor	Cabinet Demirel V
successor	Cabinet Demirel VI
composition
Party (s)	CHP and independent MPs
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	226/450

The Ecevit III cabinet was the 42nd government of Turkey , which was headed by Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel from January 5, 1978 to November 12, 1979 .

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.

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" with MSP and MHP , which together had a one-vote majority in parliament. However, this government only lasted a few months: after the disappointing performance of the governing parties in the local elections in December 1977, the coalition broke up and Ecevit tried again to establish a CHP minority government and incorporated 13 non-attached MPs into the government as ministers.

So the new government got a one-vote majority in parliament. The non-attached MPs were mostly renegade MPs from the Conservative parties, so the government could only adopt a minimal program, mainly aimed at ending the division in society, preventing civil war-like clashes between left-wing and right-wing groups, and curbing terrorism. But the violence increased and Ecevit was pressed to declare a state of emergency. The security forces took power in 13 provinces in the east of the country. Three CHP MPs then left the group in protest. Once again, the government no longer had a majority in parliament. In the Senate mid-term elections in October 1979, the Adalet Partisi received 46.8 percent of the vote, while the CHP was punished with 29 percent. Ecevit then resigned. Demirel was able to win a vote of confidence in an AP minority government on November 25, 1979, which was tolerated by Millî Selamet Partisi and Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi .

minister

42nd Government of the Republic of Turkey
Ecevit III Cabinet - January 5, 1978 to November 12, 1979

title	Surname	Political party	Term of office
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit	CHP
Deputy Prime Minister
	Orhan Eyüboğlu	CHP
	Turhan Feyzioğlu	CGP	January 5, 1978 - September 18, 1978
	Hikmet Çetin	CHP	October 3, 1978 - November 12, 1979
	Faruk Sükan	DP	January 5, 1978 - September 20, 1979
Minister of State
	Hikmet Çetin	CHP	January 5, 1978 - October 3, 1978
	Enver Akova	independently	January 5, 1978 - May 31, 1979
	Hasan Korkut	independently	June 2, 1979 - November 12, 1979
	Lütfi Doğan	CHP
	Salih Yildiz	CGP	Jan. 5, 1978 - June 21, 1979
	Ali Rıza Septioğlu	independently	January 5, 1978 - June 18, 1979
	Mustafa Kiliç	independently
	Ahmet Şener	CHP	Jan. 5, 1978 - October 23, 1979 November 8, 1979 - November 12, 1979
Minister of Justice	Mehmet Can	CHP
Defense Minister	Hasan Esat Işık Neşet Akmandor	CHP	Jan. 5, 1978 - January 16, 1979 January 16, 1979 - November 12, 1979
Interior minister	İrfan Özaydınlı Hasan Fehmi Güneş Vecdi İlhan	CHP	Jan. 5, 1978 - January 2, 1979 January 16, 1979 - October 5, 1979 October 8, 1979 - November 12, 1979
Foreign minister	Gündüz Ökçün	CHP
Finance minister	Ziya Müezzinoğlu	CHP
Minister of Education	Necdet Ugur	CHP
Minister for Public Works	Şerafettin Elçi	CHP
Minister of Commerce	Teoman Köprülüler	CHP
Minister for Health and Social Welfare	Mete Tan	independently
Minister for Customs and Monopolies	Tuncay Mataracı	independently
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock	Mehmet Yüceler	CHP	January 5, 1978 - October 15, 1979 October 30, 1979 - November 12, 1979
Transport Minister	Güneş Öngüt	CHP
Minister of Labor	Bahir Ersoy	CHP
Minister for Sizable Security	Hilmi İşgüzar Salih Yıldız	independent CGP	Jan. 5, 1978 - June 7, 1979 June 21, 1979 - November 12, 1979
Industry Minister	Orhan Alp	independently
Minister for Enterprise	Kenan Bulutoğlu	CHP
Minister of Culture	Ahmet Taner Kışlalı	CHP
Minister for Local Government	Mahmut Ozdemir	CHP
Minister of Construction and Settlement	Ahmet Karaslan Mehmet Yüzele	independent CHP	January 5, 1978 - October 2, 1979 October 15, 1979 - October 30, 1979
Minister for Village Affairs and Cooperatives	Ali Topuz	CHP
Forest Minister	Vecdi İlhan Ahmet Şener	CHP	Jan. 5, 1978 - October 8, 1979 October 23, 1979 - November 8, 1979
Minister for Youth and Sport	Yüksel Çakmur	CHP
Tourism Minister	Alev Coşkun	CHP
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Deniz Baykal	CHP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East ), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 42nd Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed March 28, 2019