Abstract:

Born in 1865 in Antalya, Sururizâde Ali Nazif Sururi was a bureaucrat who received a decent education, specialized in law and literature, and authored numerous works. He started his civil service career in the Vice Secretarial of the Royal Court after completing his internship, and in 1901 he was appointed as a member of the Council of State, which would bring him bureaucratic fame. However, he was excluded from the Council during the Second Constitutional Era due to his work as a sleuth and his loyalty to Abdülhamid II and was even exiled in later years on the grounds that he was an opponent of the Constitutional Monarchy. During the Armistice period, he was among the founding members of the İngiliz Muhipleri Cemiyeti (Assocciation of the Friends of England in Turkey). Despite having such a past, in the following years, since he published works that supported the values advocated by the Republican administration, nothing was against him after the proclamation of the Republic; on the contrary, they tried to benefit from his state experience. Accordingly, in this study, the life and intellectual world of Sururizâde Ali Nazif Sururi, whose life story is full of controversy, is analyzed within the atmosphere of the era.