Talk:Latife Uşaki

Roots
Does Latife have Balkan roots?
 * No. The article states her roots: A wealthy family from Uşak, later settled in Izmir, both of them Aegean cities of Turkey. What is more important about Latife is her being a rebellious young woman, jailed by the Greek occupation authorities for nationalist activities including participation in protests. She is considered one of early woman activists in Turkey. When I find time and my book about the incident will add it to the article. --E4024 (talk) 22:11, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Move request
Latife Hanım's surname after 1934 was not Uşaklıgil. While some members of her large family (notably the novelist Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil) took the surname Uşaklıgil, thus continuing the Ottoman-era family laqab with reference to their roots in the city of Uşak, her parents chose Uşşaklı (from Uşak), and Atatürk personally intervened for Latife to be named Uşşaki, a play of words which may mean, "from Uşak" or "of lovers" at the same time (see the article on the city of Uşak for explanations on the homonym). Therefore, while she is almost exclusively known as Latife Hanım (Ms. Latife) in Turkey, it is more appropriate to title the article as Latife Uşşaki, as per Turkish wikipedia and this reference from The Independent (where she is refered to as Ussaki, without the Turkish letters). Cretanforever 16:11, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I've moved the page, per the unopposed request. Cheers. -GTBacchus(talk) 01:14, 7 October 2007 (UTC)