4 May; Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit was rushed to a hospital to be treated for a cold, forcing him to cancel his planned meeting of his Democratic Left Party (DSP).
5 May; Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit was dibmissed from Baskent Hospital.
17 May; Doctors announced that Turkish PM Bulent Ecevit would stay in the hospital for at least one week because of suffering from a fractured left rib and an inflamed vein in his leg.
27 May; Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit was discharged on Monday from Baskent Hospital in capital Ankara, on Monday local time at 16.00 (13.00 GMT), after receiving 11 days medical treatment.
30 May; Turkey's ailing Minister Bulent Ecevit missed the summit of National Security Council due to his fragile health.
4 June; Wife of ailing Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, Rahsan, arrived in party headquarter for a meeting of her Democratic Left Party (DSP).
7 June; Turkey's ailing Minister Bulent Ecevit missed the summit of political leadership due to his fragile health.
9 June; Turkish ailing Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit on Sunday appeared in front of the cameras, after the speculations on his health because of not appearing to the media for 10 days.
10 June; Ailing Premier of Turkey, Bulent Ecevit, could not attend at the council of ministers for the first time and the meeting chaired by Deputy of PM Devlet Bahceli.
25 June; Wife of ailing Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, Rahsan, arrived in party headquarter for a meeting of her Democratic Left Party (DSP).
27 June; Turkey's ailing prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, went to an Ankara hospital for a comprehensive check-up which was expected to show whether he would be able to return to his office after an absence of almost two months.
04 July; Turkey's ailing Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit met his two coalition partners and top economy officials to discuss recent market volatility triggered by persisting fears over political stability.
08 July; Ecevit's closest aide and deputy Prime Minister Husamettin Ozkan was the first to resign both from his government post and Ecevit's Democratic Left Party (DSP) amid a rift over the future of the embattled government. Culture Minister Istemihan Talay, state minister Recep Onal as well as deputy parliament speaker Ali Iliksoy followed suit and three other DSP.
11 July; Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Ismail Cem resigned from the government and from the party of Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, whose coalition is already on the brink of collapse.
11 July; Turkish Economy Minister Kemal Dervis, the architect of a vital IMF-backed economic program, quit his position in the embattled government after the resignation of Foreign Minister Ismail Cem.
12 July; Turkey's ailing Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit on Friday named Sukru Sinal Gurel as foreign minister to replace Ismail Cem, the day after Cem quit the embattled government.
12 July; Devlet Bahceli, Ecevit's far-right government partner and the leader of Nationalist Action Party (MHP), called for the deputies quitted from DSP withdraw their resignations however he repeated his early election project.