Bülent Ecevit (1926-2006) was a Turkish politician, poet, and journalist. His father, Fahri Ecevit (d. 1951), was a law professor and a Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People's Party, CHP) MP, and his mother, Nazlı Ecevit (d. 1985), a well-known painter. After briefly attending Ankara Erkek Lisesi (Ankara Boy's High School), Ecevit enrolled at the American-sponsored Robert College in Istanbul, from which he graduated in 1944. He first worked as a journalist and then joined the Basın Yayın Genel Müdürlüğü (Directorate General of Press and Publications)