Fatma Aliye's sister Emine Semiye Önasya was also a novelist and textbook author.
The number of women poets and novelists increased sharply during the Turkish Republic (after 1923).
The first novelists during the Republican era were Azmiye Hami Güven, author of a novel, Hemșire Nimet (Nimet, the Nurse), and several published stories and Halide Edib Adıvar.
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (2001) notes a boom in women's writing, but notes that these writers have failed to attract attention outside Turkey.
[3] One of the first major anthologies of Turkish women authors was a collection translated by Nilüfer Mizanoğlu Reddy (1988).