Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
Rıza Nur (August 30, 1879 in Sinop–September 8, 1942 in Istanbul) 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 Ataturk. His acclaimed autobiography Hayat ve Hatiratim was written from exile in France and Egypt as an alternative narrative to Ataturk's famous speech Nutuk that has dominated the historiography of Turkey. Like Halide Edib and Rauf Orbay, Riza Nur's work is part of a body of early Republican literature that sought plurality in the increasingly authoritarian Turkish Republic.