Ali Rıza Bey's wife. While she is an obedient Ottoman woman who respected her husband and managed the house at the beginning of the novel, she undergoes a radical change as poverty and deprivation knock at the door. She cannot tolerate her children going hungry and suffering because of her husband's honor, which she finds exaggerated. This fear turns her into a nervous, rebellious, and materialistic person. She covers up her daughters' desires for luxury and breaks her husband's resistance. Ultimately, she prefers the comfort coming from Leyla's immoral earnings over the honest but starving days of her former life and moves in with Leyla.
She spent the first twenty-some years of her marriage following her husband, raising children amidst the hardships of life in Anatolia. She has always been frugal, thrifty, and modest. She is an ordinary mother who battles the practical side of life, preoccupied more with the daily satiety and peace of her children than with her husband's idealism.
She is small, weary, and gaunt in physique. She is often depicted in the kitchen with rolled-up sleeves and old clothes, appearing to be in rags. She has a disheveled appearance, looking like a housewife exhausted by fatigue.
Şevket
She secretly supports him as the son who bears the family's burden, but remains helpless with his downfall as well.
Ali Rıza Bey
She openly opposes the husband she once revered once poverty begins, and treats him with contempt.
Leyla ve Necla
She gives in to her daughters' beauty and luxury desires, pinning her hopes for salvation on them.