Rasih Nuri İleri

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]

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]