Reha Oğuz Türkkan

[3] During his lifetime, he published many books which focused on Turkish nationalism and Pan-Turkism.

[5] He studied Law at the Ankara University and following his graduation, he worked at the Ministry of Justice.

[6] He was a fierce opponent of a fascist or communist ideology and claimed that the first country founded by race was Turkey and that it was not Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

[7] He was in constant rivalry with Nihal Atsiz in defining the racial purity of Turkishness.

[9] He led a group of racists who referred to themselves as the Bozkurtçu (In memory of the Grey Wolf) in the 1940s[3] and was prosecuted but acquitted in the Racism Turanism trial.