She was a member of the Abkhazian princely family, Anchabadze, which had emigrated to Istanbul during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78).

[7] Her paternal grandmother Ayşe Kemalifer Dziapş-Ipa was the sister of Dürrünev Kadın who was the Senior Consort of Sultan Abdulaziz.

Her sister, Nurbanu renamed Hidayet Hanım married Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin, son of Sultan Abdülhamid II.

[1] After the Turkish republic was founded, she moved to her aunt in Sivas, where she died of tuberculosis on 6 November 1931.

She intended her memoirs to be reckoning, an account which would bring to light the harsh treatment her family received from the victorious republic.