Contents: Foreword Introduction Acknowledgments Translator's Notes List of Illustrations 1 Meeting 2 Latife's Family 3 The Occupation of Izmir, Latife's Hometown 4 Love Springs from the Ashes of the Great Fire 5 Mustafa Kemal Pasa Proposes 6 Waiting for the Wedding 7 Zübeyde Hanim, the Mother-in-Law 8 A Purebred Arabian as an Engagement Present 9 "Get ready, we're getting married!" 10 Honeymoon 11 Arrival in Ankara, the Nationalist Base 12 The Bride who Came to the Garrison 13 Latife Entertains the Foreign Press at Çankaya 14 Touring the Country Together 15 The 'Impertinent' Bride who Wears Spurs 16 Bullet Holes in Latife's Clothes 17 Latife Wants to Stand for Parliament 18 Life at the Residence 19 The Proclamation of the Republic 20 The Groom Has a Heart Attack 21 Latife Shields her Husband with her Own Body 22 She Prepares the State Protocol 23 Women of the Time 24 The Women's Movement and Latife 25 Fikriye: The Former Consort Comes Back 26 Kick-starting the Economy 27 Autumn Tour 28 Days of Opposition 29 Was it a Love Match? 30 Divorce 31 Reverberations 32 Separation 33 Tears in Mustafa Kemal's Blue Eyes 34 Latife Supports the Opposition Party 35 A Unique Surname from Atatürk 36 The Campaign of Vilification 37 Latife Hides her Illness 38 Guarding the History of the Republic in her Safe Appendices: I Obituaries in the Foreign Press II Obituary by Burhan Felek Biographical Notes Bibliography Index.