Wife of late Turkish premier Ecevit dies at age of 97

By Firat Tasdemir and Yesim Sert Karaaslan

ANKARA (AA) - Rahsan Ecevit, wife of late Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, died at the age of 97 at a hospital in the capital Ankara, according to information received by Anadolu Agency.

Ecevit, who was also the founder of Democratic Left Party, died at the Gulhane Training and Research Hospital, where she had been receiving treatment since Dec. 26 last year.

She died at the intensive care unit of the hospital due to multiple organ failure at around 9.10 p.m. Turkish time (1810GMT).