She was related from her father's side to Turkish novelist Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil.

For two and a half years, Lâtife Hanım symbolized the new face of Turkish women as a first lady who was very present in public life which, in Turkey, was a novelty by the standards of her day.

[2] It was the policy of Atatürk to make women an active part of society and abolish gender segregation, and his wife acted as an important visual role model by attending official functions unveiled in a gender mixed company.

In 2005, the Turkish Historical Society was to make her diaries public "except for the most private ones, taking the views of her family into consideration".

[5][6] A comprehensive but also controversial biography of Latife Hanım by the veteran Cumhuriyet journalist İpek Çalışlar was published in 2006.