Suphi Nuri İleri (1887–1945) was a
Turkish politician and writer.
Biography
Suphi was born in
Gallipoli
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, Ottoman Empire, in 1887. He was the brother of
Celal Nuri İleri. Their mother was Nefise Hanım, the eldest daughter of the Ottoman Albanian statesman
Prevezeli Abidin Pasha, who served as Adana governor, Bahr-i Sefit (Aegean Islands) governor and minister of foreign affairs.
[Hatice Çöpel, ''Celal Nuri İleri’nin Din Anlayışı'', Selçuk Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri Bölümü Din Felsefesi Anabilim Dalı Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Konya 2010] Together in 1918 they founded the Turkish nationalist magazine ''
İleri''.
In 1936 he produced the Turkish translation of
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...
's ''
Capital: Critique of Political Economy''. İleri was among the contributors of the cultural magazine ''
Yeni Adam
''Yeni Adam'' () was a cultural magazine which was published in Istanbul, Turkey, between 1934 and 1979 with some interruptions. It was one of the publications which were started to support the policies and ideas of the newly founded Republic of ...
''.
İleri died in
Istanbul
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in 1945.
His son,
Rasih Nuri İleri, was a socialist politician and also, translated Karl Marx's ''Capital: Critique of Political Economy'' in 1965.
References
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1887 births
1945 deaths
People from Gelibolu
20th-century Turkish politicians
20th-century Turkish writers
Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni