Zübeyde Hanım was the mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. She was born in 1857 in Lankaza and married Ali Rıza Efendi, with whom she had three children who died in childhood. She later gave birth to Mustafa Kemal in 1881 and Makbule in 1885. After Ali Rıza died when Mustafa was young, she remarried to Ragıp Bey. Following the Balkan Wars and Greece taking Salonica, she moved with Makbule to Istanbul. She spent her final years moving between Ankara and Izmir due to health issues, before passing away in 1923.

1. A mother can change all the world
Zübeyde Hanım
1857-1923

2. Zübeyde Hanım, mother of
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born
in Lankaza in 1857, his childhood
and early youth,he was here with
his family.
Her father name is Sofuzade
Feyzullah (Sadullah) Ağa and her
mother name is Ayşe(Molla)
Hanım.

3. Zübeyde Hanım's first
marriage was to Ali Rıza
Efendi.
With her dark blonde hair,
deep blue eyes and fair
skin, she won the
admiration of Ali Rıza, a
border guard who insisted
he would only marry a
blonde-haired, blue-eyed
woman.

4. Ali Riza's older sister
arranged this marriage - as
was the tradition at that
time.
Zübeyde Hanım was in her
early teens and 20 years
younger than her husband.
Their first child was Fatma,
then Ömer and Ahmet were
born, but they all died in
childhood.

5. Mustafa, later to become
Atatürk, was born in 1881,
followed by his sister
Makbule in 1885.
They had a sister Naciye,
born in 1889, whom they lost
because of tuberculosis in
childhood.

6. Kemal's father Ali Rıza, died
when Mustafa Kemal was six
years old, making her
parental influence
dominant.
She was 27, Zübeyde Hanım
and her two children lived
for a period with her brother
Hüseyin, who was the
manager of a farm outside
Salonica.

7. In her second marriage
she was married to
Ragıp Bey, who had four
children from his
previous marriage.
She could not see
Mustafa Kemal during
the Turkish War of
Independence in 1919.

8. After the Balkan Wars,
when the Ottomans
lost Salonica to
Greece, she moved to a
house in Beşiktaş-
Akaretler, Istanbul
with her daughter
Makbule.

9. After the Balkan Wars, when
the Ottomans lost Salonica to
Greece, she moved to a house in
Beşiktaş-Akaretler, Istanbul
with her daughter Makbule.
She moved to Ankara in 1922,
but the climate was not suitable
for her, so she was sent to
İzmir.She died there in 1923.

10. …AND TODAY'S DEATH ANNİVERSARY OF ZÜBEYDE HANIM.

11. REFERENCES
Informations: tr.wikipedia.org/
geniusmothers.com
www.ataturkhayati.com