Nationality Turkish Name Riza Nur | Education Medicine | |
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Occupation Surgeon, politician, writer Alma mater Military Medical School Books My Life and Memoirs, The Secret Organization People also search for Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Latife Ussaki, Kadir Misiroglu | ||
Rıza Nur'un Ruhsal Sorunları Var mıydı, Yoksa İftira mı Ediliyor?
Rıza Nur (August 30, 1879 in Sinop–September 8, 1942 in Istanbul) was a Turkish surgeon, politician and writer.
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- Rza Nurun Ruhsal Sorunlar Var myd Yoksa ftira m Ediliyor
- Prof dr ilber ortayl n n r za nur ve hat rat na yorumu
- Early years
- In Government
- Later years
- Works
- References
Prof dr ilber ortayl n n r za nur ve hat rat na yorumu
Early years
After graduating from the Military Medical School in 1901 Rıza Nur went on to work as a surgeon at Gülhane Military Hospital before returning to the Military Medical School as an academic in 1907. Before this an early posting had seen him serve on the border with Bulgaria where his job was to check if imported flour was contaminated with killer germs, after the Sultan had claimed this to be the case. The somewhat foolish nature of the work, as well as the refusal of his superiors to supply Rıza with a microscope and other basic scientific tools, helped to convince him that Abdul Hamid II's rule was backward, corrupt and leading Turkey into severe decline. He entered politics following the adoption of a constitutional monarchy but was imprisoned and later exiled for coming into conflict with the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) administration, remaining a dissenting voice from abroad. Feeling that Turkey was too reliant on Germany but accepting that the country needed a close relationship with a bigger power to prosper he toyed with the idea of a United States mandate in Turkey in the immediate aftermath of World War I.
In Government
Returning to Turkey in 1919 he was a founder member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and was appointed Minister of National Education in 1920 and Minister of Health and Public Assistance in 1921, as well as serving as the envoy at the 1921 Treaty of Moscow and the Conference of Lausanne. For Kemal Atatürk, Rıza was an important appointment as his presence in government, along with that of Ahmet Ferit, lent weight to Atatürk's claims to being a uniting force, as both men had been opponents of the CUP which provided most government ministers.
At Lausanne Rıza was sent as assistant to the head of the Turkish delegation İsmet İnönü. It was he who proposed the motions recognising the Grand National Assembly as the legitimate government of Turkey, the end of the monarchy but the continuing control of the Caliphate by the Turkish government. However whilst at Lausanne he also came to blows with the former Prime Minister of Greece Eleftherios Venizelos over the issue of the Pontic Greeks. Indeed what the Allies saw as Rıza's intransigence over both this issue and that of the Armenians led to a Yugoslavian delegate claiming that Rıza was "beginning to show the cloven hoof".
Later years
Following the formation of the Turkish Republic, Rıza Nur fell out of favour and left Turkey in 1926 after the attempt on the life of Atatürk at Izmir. Rıza condemned the executions of Mehmet Cavit Bey and the other alleged assassination conspirators arguing that, whilst he personally disliked the men who had been his own political opponents, he felt that they had not been involved in the plot and so were unjustly killed. Embittered at the fall-out with his former ally, Rıza also wrote widely about Atatürk's alleged alcoholism. Returning from exile in Paris and Alexandria after Atatürk's death, in 1942 he published the journal Tanridağı, which supported Turanism and pan-Turkism. The journal's name refers to the Tien Shan mountain range in Mongolia, a region inhabited by ancient Turkic tribes.
Rıza Nur was also a noted writer on a number of topics, with his most well-known work being a history of Turkey in 14 volumes.
He died at the age of 63 and was buried at the Merkezefendi Cemetery, Istanbul.
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