Turkey
The Ecevit Family (spouses)
- Bülent Ecevit (1925–2006) (Prime Minister of Turkey, 1974, 1977, 1978–79, and 1999–2002)
- Rahşan Ecevit (1923–) (Former leader of the Democratic Leftist Party)
The İnönü Family (father-son)
- İsmet İnönü (1884–1973) (President of Turkey, 1938–50; Prime Minister of Turkey, 1923–24, 1925–37, and 1961–65)
- Erdal İnönü (son of İsmet İnönü; Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, 1991–93)
Read more about this topic: List Of Political Families
Famous quotes containing the word turkey:
“In the land of turkeys in turkey weather
At the base of the statue, we go round and round.
What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise!
Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“You can make as good a design out of an American turkey as a Japanese out of his native stork.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)