Aila (born 1891) was an Ottoman Turkish woman who served as guardian to the daughters of Osman Bey, Governor of Balikesir. In 1922, Aila accompanied the Bey's daughters as they were escorted by the Ottoman Army from Balikesir to Cairo, pretending to embark on a pilgrimage to Mecca in order to cover for the Ottomans' true plot: to smuggle the Empire's priceless treasures out of Turkey before Mustafa Kemal's nationalists could acquire them. Aila secretly plotted to steal the jewels of Suleiman the Magnificent from the convoy, as well as recover the Caliph Uthman's Quran for Kemal, whose cause she secretly had an affinity for, even as she detested the common people. Aila betrayed and killed Colonel Ahmed Elci before he could convince her to steal the convoy's treasures and escape with him, and she failed to turn the mercenaries Josh Corey and Adam Dyer against each other by promising them the other half of the Ottomans' secret wealth. Ultimately, she and Corey abandoned the others and fled to Smyrna (Izmir), boarding the Star of Islam. When Dyer arrived and confronted the duplicitous duo, Aila presented Dyer with his captain's papers, supposedlly smoothing over any disagreement between them. She escaped when the boat was attacked by Greek Army and Ottoman Army troops who were desperate to escape the city in the face of the Turkish National Movement's Great Offensive, and she later confronted Corey and Dyer after they were presented to Kemal as prisoners. She handed over the Caliph Uthman's Quran to Kemal, preventing the Quran from falling into the hands of the Sultanate, and thus rpeventing the Sultanate from using the old symbol of Islamic authority to rally the Muslim world against Kemal. However, Corey guessed that she ahd stolen the jewels for herself when they could not be found.