Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (born 1879)

Rıza Nur

Turkish surgeon, politician and writer

Rıza Nur was a Turkish surgeon, politician and writer. He was prominent in the years immediately after the First World War, where he served as a cabinet minister but was subsequently marginalised, and became a critic of Atatürk. His acclaimed autobiography Hayat ve Hatıratım was…