In 1919, she travelled to Sivas where a congress was held by Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Atatürk).

After Mustafa Kemal Pasha's approval, she formed a militia group.

She almost faded away from public memory until 1933, when a journalist found her living in poverty in a former Russian monastery in Istanbul with her grandchild.

[3] She was given work and honoured by displaying her medal on military parades in national days.

Kara Fatma died on 2 July 1955 at the hospital of Darülaceze [tr],[4] a charity foundation, run by the Municipality of Istanbul, where she spent the last years of her life.