Dr. Riza Nur, a native of Sinop and a graduate of Imperial School of Medicine, had a controversial political career within the historical climate of (late Ottoman) empire to (Turkish) nation-state. His political life intersected with milestones of late Ottoman/Turkish history: parliament member in 1908 during the restoration of Ottoman constitution, political exile during World War I until the Armistice in 1920, and a fiery ideologue of Turkish nationalism who served as a member of the Turkish Delegation during the Lausanne Treaty negotiations in 1923. In current historiography, both conventional and revisionist, he has been remembered as the architect of racial reconfiguration of postwar population politics in modern Turkey, fundamentally shaping the legal framework of the category of “minority” and historical narrative on the origins of Turkishness. This paper scrutinizes the intersection of Riza Nur’s medical career predating the above described political life by analyzing his pre-1908 medical writings alongside his memoire, entitled Hayatim and Hatiratim, written in 1927 and published in 1965. He was a prolific author of many medical texts about the prevention of venereal diseases and male circumcision, some of which were published also for general audience. This paper has two goals: it seeks to reframe a(nother) biographical narrative of Riza Nur by analyzing how his medical expertise on public hygiene, sexual health, and modern/reformist surgical intervention on male genitalia contributed to eugenics and sexology debates in the late Ottoman/early Republican context. While doing so, this paper suggests a reading of Riza Nur’s medical writings in relation to his memoire to trace the affective and political implications of his medical endeavors as a late nineteenth century Ottoman physician on a Turkish [Republican] self and his (desired) audience. The second goal of this paper is to read Riza Nur’s medical writings alongside his autobiographical narrative regarding his own sexuality and sexual experiences as reflected in his memoire, in which Riza Nur gestures to the notion of impossibility of life in the absence of “phallus.” Linking the early medical expertise with his later political career, the paper traces Riza Nur’s narrative of selfhood, [sexual] desire, and the implication of life within the condition of phallocracy as precursors to the biopolitical as well as sexual frameworks of Turkish nationalist discourse.