Nayman was born to Hasip and Melek in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, in 1899.

In 1927, she married an attorney named Zihni who later assumed the surname Nayman, and settled in Adana.

[2] Turkish women achieved voting rights in the local elections on 3 April 1930.

[3] Nayman joined the Republican People's Party (CHP), and was elected in the election held on 8 February 1935 from Adana Province, then known as Seyhan Province, as one of the first seventeen female politicians into the 5th Parliament of Turkey.

[2] In the parliament, she worked on the projects to establish the reformatory schools for the juvenile delinquents.