Naciye was born on 23 April 1881 in Üsküp, Ottoman Empire, in what is now part of Macedonia to Major Salih Bey. She was styled for a portion of her life with the title Hanım (meaning "lady" or "madame"). In 1903, she married a captain Ýsmail Hakký Bey (aka İsmail Hakkı Bey).[1][2] She had three children Nusret Suman, who would become a sculptor; and two daughters Fikret and Nedret.[3] As a result of the forced migration during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, the family was forced to migrate to Anatolia.