Devrim Burakgazi

"'He was... wonderful. He never lost his temper with me, and he tried to learn about me being trans, even back in 2005. The day I lost him was the worst day in my life' -Aylanur, about her father Devrim"Devrim is the father of Aylanur Burakgazi and a minor character in the first arc.

Biography
Devrim was the son of Turkish immigrants. He grew up in a mixed neighborhood, running alongside other children of immigrants, including Pakistani and Iraqi kids. At some point in his childhood, his father died, prompting his mother to move in with a friend of hers, along with her children. At some point between this and him graduating from High School, the two became romantically involved, though they hid this from him and Padma's children.

Shortly after graduating high school, Devrim began medical school, and he spent the next seven years studying to become a doctor. While working in this field, he became distant from his family, though he returned home for his mother's funeral. Once he completed his medical training, he moved to New York and began working in a local hospital.

When Devrim was thirty or so, he met a visiting Veiz, and the two hit it off almost immediately. Within a year or so Veiz was pregnant, and the two planned to be married. However, after the birth of their child, Veiz became much more distant. When the 9/11 attacks happened, Veiz left for her homeland, leaving Devrim with a toddler.

Devrim raised his child with the help of his community, including his forgiving elderly landlord and a few local librarians. When the child was four or so, she came out as a trans girl, though she didn't have the terminology for it, and Devrim helped her pick her new name- Aylanur.

For the next two years, Devrim and Aylanur made a home in their apartment. While Aylanur still went by her deadname and male pronouns in public, her father and his landlord knew her by her real name and treated her as the girl she was.