@article{2017,title={ŞEVKET SÜREYYA AYDEMİR AND TEK ADAM (THE MAN): A BIOGRAPHIC CONTRIBUTION TO TURKISH HISTORIOGRAPHY of REPUBLICAN ERA},abstractNode={Şevket Süreyya Aydemir (1897-1976) is a highly influential bureaucrat and intellectual of One Party Period. He worked for preparing the ideologic basis of Turkish Reforms with Kadro journal, issued between 1932 and 1934, and maintained his views throughout 1960s in Yön journal. He attempted to put his thoughts he supported during Kadro years into practice as a high level bureaucrat in İsmet İnönü period. He was suspended from his office with Demokrat Parti (Democratic Party) government, in other words, he was dismissed from ruling class. Şevket Süreyya concentrated on his biographic studies (after writing his autobiography Suyu Arayan Adam [The Man Looking for Water]) in mid-1950s. The serial which started with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Tek Adam [The Man], 3 Volumes 1963-65), continued with İsmet İnönü (İkinci Adam, [Second Man], 3 Volumes, 1966-1968), Enver Paşa (Makedonya’dan Orta Asya’ya Enver Paşa [From Macedonia to Central Asia Enver Pasha, 3 Volumes, 1970-72), and lasted with Adnan Menderes (Menderes’in Dramı [Tragedy of Menderes], 1969). Şevket Süreyya Aydemir rendered almost one-hundred-year modernization process of Turkey in biography genre. The complete series of biographies are still considered actual and original. This collection consisting of ten volumes still continues to be basic reference source for researchers and for those who are interested in history. Aydemir, who highly relies on authentic documents, builds a structure suitable for general readership and an influential style. Tough, it is hard to allege that these biographies are duly acknowledged. This article aims to set the contribution of Şevket Süreyya in biography style based on his masterpiece, Tek Adam (The Man). In this article some basic and pioneering features of Tek Adam will be examined in the context of Atatürk biographies, and its role in official historiography will be analyzed. As a result, the article will attempt to determine the potentials of Tek Adam [The Man] (although it has been over fifty years since it was first published) within the frame of Republic period historiography.},author={Sedat GENCER-- Kadir KASALAK},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}