Returning to Turkey, he served as a planning advisor to Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit.
He was elected leader of the Democratic Left Party at its general assembly held on March 7, 1988 following the resignation and leaving the politics of Bülent Ecevit some time before.
The Turkish daily Milliyet reported Hussein in September 1990 saying to Bülent Ecevit that, "Kuwait is now ours, but we might have refrained from taking such a decision if U.S. troops were not massed in the region with the threat of invading us."
Bülent Ecevit | Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu | Bülent Ersoy | Bülent Eczacıbaşı | Bülent Ceylan |
Over his 55-year career at the Robert College, Çerçiyan taught over 25,000 students, among them the future Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit, Foreign Ministers Selim Sarper and Rifat Turgut Menemencioğlu, and Cabinet Minister Kasim Gulek.