 She was a member of Abkhazian princely family, Tsanba.Her father was Prince Arzakan Bey Tsanba, and her mother was Princess Esma Hanım Klıç, also an Abkhazian.She had been brought to Istanbul as a young child, where her father entrusted her to the household of the wife of grand vizier Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, where her name according to Ottoman custom was changed to Nazikeda.