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Rasih Nuri İleri

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Born28 March 1920
Geneva, Switzerland
Died6 December 2014(2014-12-06) (aged 94)
Istanbul, Turkey
Resting placeAşiyan Cemetery, Istanbul, Turkey
Occupation
  • Translator
  • Writer
  • Politician
LanguageTurkish
Alma materIstanbul University
Period1940–2000
GenreNon-fiction
Children3
RelativesSuphi Nuri İleri (father)

Rasih Nuri İleri (1920–2014) was a Turkish writer and socialist politician. He was a member of various socialist parties during his lifetime.

Early life and education

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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.[4] Then he obtained a degree in mathematics from Istanbul University in 1943.[2][4]

Career

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İleri joined the Communist Party in 1942 while attending Istanbul University.[5] 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.[5] 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.[5] 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]

Personal life and death

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Naciye Babalık (2003). Türkiye Komünist Partisi'nin Sönümlenmesi (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in Turkish). Ankara University. p. 121.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Rasih Nuri İleri". farukbildirici.com/. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Rasih Nuri İleri kimdir? Ne zaman öldü? İşte biyografisi". Karar (in Turkish). 17 March 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d "Rasih Nuri İleri". kp.org.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 25 February 2024.