Turkey Decides

Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit
BULENT UZUN / A.A.-SIPA

BEATEN: Turkish Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Left Party (DSP) Bulent Ecevit, center, is helped by an unidnetified bodyguard as he arrive to his party headquarters in the Turkish capital of Ankara, late Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. Turkey's ailing Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit conceded defeat in national elections Sunday, saying his government had committed political suicide by giving in to early polls. Preliminary results showed Ecevit's Democratic Left Party capturing only about one percent of the vote and neither of his coalition partners with enough votes to break the 10 percent threshold needed to enter parliament.

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