Rıza Nur

Rıza Nur (1879 to 1942) was a Turkish surgeon, politician and writer, born in Sinop. After graduating from the Military Medical School in 1901 he worked as a surgeon at Gülhane Military Hospital and from 1907 taught at the school, publishing in that year a book on protection from venereal diseases. Drawn into politics after the constitutional revolution, he was imprisoned and exiled for conflict with the Committee of Union and Progress, returned in 1919 as a founding member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and served as a cabinet minister in the years after the First World War, but was later marginalised and became a critic of Atatürk. He wrote his autobiography, Hayat ve Hatıratım, in exile in France and Egypt.