Birth Date: | 28 March 1920 |
Birth Place: | Geneva, Switzerland |
Death Place: | Istanbul, Turkey |
Resting Place: | Aşiyan Cemetery, Istanbul, Turkey |
Language: | Turkish |
Alma Mater: | Istanbul University |
Period: | 1940–2000 |
Genre: | Non-fiction |
Children: | 3 |
Relatives: | Suphi Nuri İleri (father) |
Rasih Nuri İleri (1920–2014) was a Turkish writer and socialist politician. He was a member of the various socialist parties during his lifetime.
He was born in Geneva on 28 March 1920.[1] [2] His father was Suphi Nuri İleri.[3]
İleri graduated from Haydarpaşa High School in 1939. Then he obtained a degree in mathematics from Istanbul University in 1943.[2] [4]
İleri joined the Communist Party in 1942 while attending Istanbul University. He worked in different jobs and published articles in various publications, including Servet-i Fünun, Marko Paşa and Yeni Adam.[2] [4]
İleri was one of the founders of the Socialist Workers and Peasants Party in the mid-1940s. He became a member of the Workers' Party of Turkey in the 1960s, but he was dismissed from the party due to his conflict with Mehmet Ali Aybar.[2] İleri was involved in the establishment of the United Communist Party of Turkey and United Socialist Party in the late 1980s. He returned to the Communist Party in 2001.[5]
İleri was the author of many books.[2] He translated Karl Marx's Das Kapital in 1965.[3]
İleri was married, and his wife, Bedia İleri, died in 2005.[2] They had three children, two sons and a daughter.[2] İleri had a good command of English, French and Greek.[4]
İleri died in Istanbul on 6 December 2014 and was buried in Aşiyan cemetery.[4]