Serving as the District Governor of Edremit, he is an Ottoman bureaucrat with genuinely good intentions. While he had a much brighter will in his youth when he saved Yusuf's life, his unhappy marriage to the nagging and self-interested Şahinde has eroded all the resistance in his character. He has abandoned himself to raki and melancholy thoughts. Although he sensed the potential danger between Yusuf and Muazzez, he could not provide sufficient protection. He realizes that his own position and honor are mortgaged due to his gambling debts, which are a diabolical trap set by the industrialist Hilmi Bey. While struggling within this weakness, his body gives way, and he departs this life with a severe heart attack, leaving his children vulnerable.
He tried to remain clean in his professional life but succumbed to the humid lifestyle of the Anatolian provinces. An irrational marriage made in his youth drained away all his life energy.
A man who deteriorated rapidly after passing the age of thirty-five; he is a man with snow-white hair, sagging cheeks, permanently tired features, who was once vigorous but now has slumped shoulders.
Yusuf
He loves him more than his own son; although he appreciates his honesty, they clash because he cannot mirror his own character in him.
Muazzez
His most precious flower, but his victim whom he could not save.
Şahinde
The enemy within who consumes his life.
Hilmi Bey
The hunter who has trapped him through blackmail.