Gülnar Hatun (aka Büyük Ece, c. 731-769) was a semi legendary Turkic woman.

Both Gülnar's and her fiancé Yirbağı's fathers were killed by Umayyad general Nasr ibn Sayyar during the reign of Caliph Marwan II.

After Yırbağı was also killed, Gülnar with a large partisan group escaped to Al-'Awasim, a buffer region between the Abbasid and the Byzantine Empires, what is now in south Turkey.

In al Awasim, Gülnar began fighting against Abbasids and in 769 she too was killed during a clash around Gülek Pass (Cilician Gates of the antiquity).

[1][2] In 1950 the Turkmen town Hanaypazar in Mersin Province was renamed Gülnar.