Suphi Nuri İleri

Suphi Nuri İleri (1887–1945) was a Turkish politician and writer.

Biography

Suphi was born in Gallipoli, 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.^[1] Together in 1918 they founded the Turkish nationalist magazine İleri.

In 1936 he produced the Turkish translation of Karl Marx's Capital: Critique of Political Economy.^[2] İleri was among the contributors of the cultural magazine Yeni Adam.^[3]

İleri died in Istanbul in 1945.

His son, Rasih Nuri İleri, was a socialist politician and also, translated Karl Marx's Capital: Critique of Political Economy in 1965.^[4]

References

1. 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
2. Kapital. Online Computer Library Center, Inc. OCLC 63101346. Retrieved 8 December 2015 – via WorldCat.
3. Yasemin Türkkan Tunalı. "Yeni Adam Dergisi". Atatürk Encyclopedia (in Turkish).
4. İrem Konca (2019). "The Turkish Retranslations of Marx's Das Kapital as a Site of Intellectual and Ideological Struggle". In Özlem Berk Albachten; Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar (eds.). Studies from a Retranslation Culture. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Singapore: Springer. p. 89. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-7314-5_6. ISBN 978-981-13-7314-5.