[5][6][7][8][9][10] Some sources claim that they were married for a certain period of time (under "Imam Marriage", "İmam Nikahı" in Turkish).

[1] Fikriye was born in the city of Larissa, in the region of Thessaly, then part of the Kingdom of Greece.

[8] Besides her mother tongue Turkish, it is said that she spoke Greek and French[14] and it is also said that she played the piano and the oud.

She sailed to Karadeniz Ereğli at the Black Sea and then reached Ankara over Kastamonu.

[7][8][15] According to some sources, they married by Islamic marital practice -no civil marriage was in use at that time-, and it was kept secret from the public.

[7][9][14][15] It is asserted that Mustafa Kemal's mother Zübeyde Hanım (1856–1923) and his sister Makbule (1885–1956) were for a long time ago against a relationship between the two.

[15] During the Battle of Sakarya (23 August – 13 September 1921), Mustafa Kemal Pasha, commander of the Turkish troops, ordered Ankara from the frontline that his paycheck to be handed over to Fikriye.

[14] Personal belongings and some private photographs of Fikriye were donated by her nephew Hayri Özdinçer to the "Atatürk's Residence and Railway Museum" (Turkish: Atatürk Konutu Ve Demiryolları Müzesi) in Ankara in 2006.