She was born 1902 in Üsküp (Skopje), then part of the Ottoman Empire, where her father Salih Hulusi was appointed as a civil servant.
Remziye was educated in natural science at "Darülfünun" (forerunner of today's Istanbul University), where her primary interest was in chemistry.
[5] Right after graduation, she joined a small group of her female schoolmates to go to Baku, Azerbaijan to serve there at a teacher's college.
During a dinner in Baku, given by a wealthy Azeri, Remziye met Reşit Süreyya (later surnamed Gürsey), a medicine doctor from Turkey.
Remziye went there by sea via Mersin after leaving her one-and-half years old son to her mother and elder sister in İstanbul.
In 1924, her daughter Deha (Gürsey Owen) was born in Paris, who became later the Turkish member of International Psychology Association.
[7] Although she wanted to conduct doctoral studies, she had to return home due to omission of her scholarship with the completion of her education.
Thereupon, Minister of Education Cemal Hüsnü (Taray) offered her a scholarship for doctoral studies in France, and her son Feza's entry into the renowned Galatasaray High School as a free-of-charge boarding student.
In 1936, she moved Ankara to take the post of a specialist for biochemistry at the Pharmacodynamics Department of Public Health Institute.