Ecevit'in cenazesi dış basında
Flaş olarak geçilen haberlerde, Ecevit'i son yolculuğuna onbinlerin uğurladığı belirtildi.
(AFP) - Thousands pay final homage to former Turkish PM Ecevit
Tens of thousands have thronged the streets of Ankara for a final farewell to former prime minister Bulent Ecevit, widely admired here for a five-decade political career of unblemished honesty, but best remembered for ordering Turkish troops to Cyprus in 1974.
An estimated 20,000 people were packed into the courtyard of the Kocatepe Mosque, Ankara's biggest, and tens of thousands more were in the surrounding streets Saturday, closed to traffic for the day.
The crowd briefly broke into boos and pro-secular chants of protest as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and ministers of his Islamist-rooted government arrived at the mosque where Turkey's entire political class, from President Ahmet Necdet Sezer on down were gathered.