Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2007). Famous Ottoman Women(en inglés). Avea. p. 49. ISBN978-975-7104-77-3. «The fact that Hüma's origins cannot be traced is a proof in itself that she was definitely not of Turkish origin but was a slave.»
Hollmann, Joshua (2017). The religious concordance : Nicholas of Cusa and Christian-Muslim dialogue. Leiden. p. 116. ISBN978-90-04-32677-4. OCLC965535039. «Mehmed’s maternal ancestry is shrouded in mystery. Franz Babinger notes that his mother was a ‘slave’, which ensures that she was not of Turkish origin, and that she probably was of Greek descent (Franz Babinger, Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time, edited by William C. Hickman and translated by Ralph Manheim, Bollingen Series xcvi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), 12).»