Yakup Kadri's novel Ankara is a work that has attracted the attention of the literary public with its subject, thesis, fiction and characters. In this novel, Yakup Kadri deals with the three periods of Ankara, the capital of the newly established state. The first of these is the ordeal times of the National Struggle; the second is the founding days of the Republic; The third is the years 1923-1943, which is also called the early Republican period. Although Ankara is a city utopia, events, facts, places and people are viewed through the eyes of Selma, the protagonist of the novel. It can be said that the author, while describing three different periods of the capital, also tells the three phases of Selma’s life. The life of Selma and the history of the newly established state coincide to a large extent. Indeed, the three men who entered the life of Selma are introduced and told through three different time periods. Selma is married to Ahmet Nazif, Hakkı and Neşet Sabit respectively in three parts of the novel. Each male character is fictionalized to include the dominant features of the period. This article, whose field of study is Yakup Kadri's Ankara, focuses on Selma's private life; it centers on her inner world, her relationships with her spouses, her pleasures and worries. As will be seen more clearly in the future, it is possible to observe the effects, traces and of course the results of everything experienced in Turkey, especially in Ankara, and the change seen in almost every aspect of life between 1919-1943 in the private life of Selma. The 'living' witness of the years of the National Struggle, the proclamation of the Republic and the first twenty years of the new state, the personality of the forty-five-year-old woman, her emotional relationships, human relations, desires and doubts allow us to get to know Selma better as an individual and at the same time. It also reveals the nature of social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]