Zübeyde Hanım

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Zübeyde Hanım
Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the anniversary of his mother's death

Zübeyde Hanım (* 1857 in Langadas , Vilâyet Saloniki , today Greece ; † January 14, 1923 in Izmir ) was the mother of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the founding father of Turkey . Hanım is not her family name, but is the Turkish form of the nickname Chanum and means lady , which in the Turkish language is an expression of courtesy and respect.

Zübeyde was born in the village of Langadas (today the regional district of Thessaloniki ) in the Ottoman Empire as the daughter of a Turkish farmer. She was the only daughter of the Hacısofular family along with her two brothers.

She married Ali Rıza Efendi in 1878 and had six children with him: Fatma, Ömer, Ahmet, Makbule , Naciye and, in 1881, Mustafa. Four of them died at a young age. Since the marriage, she and her husband lived in the traditional Ottoman building in Thessaloniki, now known as the Ataturk House .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Isaac Frederick Marcosson, Turbulent years , Ayer Publishing, 1969, page 144. in the Google book search
  2. Friederike Braun: Studies on the linguistic handling of a social category. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, p. 55.
  3. sabah.com.tr ( Memento from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Sabah newspaper from May 11, 2008 (Turkish)