Latife or, with the honorifics, Latife Hanım or Latife Hanımefendi, or, after the 1934 Reform on Family Names in Turkey, Latife Uşşaki (İzmir, 1898 - İstanbul, 1975) was Mustafa Kemal Pasha's (later Atatürk) wife between 1923 and 1925. She was relative to Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, who was a Turkish novelist.
She was born in 1898 in İzmir to one of the most prominent trading families of the city with roots in the city of Uşak, whence their unofficial ...
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Latife or, with the honorifics, Latife Hanım or Latife Hanımefendi, or, after the 1934 Reform on Family Names in Turkey, Latife Uşşaki (İzmir, 1898 - İstanbul, 1975) was Mustafa Kemal Pasha's (later Atatürk) wife between 1923 and 1925. She was relative to Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, who was a Turkish novelist.
She was born in 1898 in İzmir to one of the most prominent trading families of the city with roots in the city of Uşak, whence their unofficial family name of Uşşakizade. She did her high school studies in İzmir and in 1919 she attended law schools in Paris and London. When she came back to Turkey, the Turkish War of Independence was nearing its end without being over yet.
On September 11, 1922, upon hearing that Mustafa Kemal Pasha was in İzmir after its re-capture by the Turkish army, she went to his headquarters and offered him the opportunity to stay in her family mansion in Göztepe for security reasons. Atatürk was pleased to accept and their relationship started.
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