Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Hüma Hatun" in Turkish language version.
Nothing is known of Hüma Hatun's origins, other than the testimony of contemporary sources that she was a slave girl, which means that she would not have been Turkish, for by law Muslims could not be enslaved.
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.
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).
