Şevket Süreyya Aydemir

Died in 1976

Şevket Süreyya Aydemir was born in 1897 in Edirne, where he graduated from the teacher training school. According to the Küre, he fought on the Caucasus front, taught in Azerbaijan and then studied economics at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. Back in Turkey, he was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Independence Tribunal in Ankara and released after about eighteen months. From 1932 to 1934, he ran a journal that advocated a state-led economy. Director of the Ankara commercial high school, then a senior civil servant, he wrote biographies of Atatürk, İnönü and Enver Pasha, and died in Ankara on 25 March 1976.

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NovelToprak UyanırsaŞevket Süreyya Aydemir · 1963not translated into EnglishLiterature