Latife Uşaklıgil was the wife of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, from 1923 to 1925. Latife married Mustafa Kemal on January 29, 1923, in İzmir. She accompanied him on official tours, appeared in public without a veil and took part in his political life. Their marriage was troubled by differences in temperament and by her involvement in his affairs. On August 5, 1925, Mustafa Kemal announced their divorce. After the divorce Latife lived quietly in Istanbul, refusing to speak about her marriage. Her letters and diaries were kept closed for years after her death. Latife Uşaklıgil died on Jul 12, 1975, in Istanbul, Turkey. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.