Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz

Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz
Head of the Osmanoğlu family
Term19 May 1973 – 19 January 1977
PredecessorŞehzade Osman Fuad
SuccessorŞehzade Ali Vasib
Born26 September 1901
Çırağan Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died19 January 1977(1977-01-19) (aged 75)
Nice, France
Spouse
Berkemal Hanım
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(m. 1929; died 1962)​
IssueHürrem Sultan
HouseOttoman
FatherŞehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin
MotherNeşefelek Hanım

Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: محمد عبد العزیز; also Mehmed Abdülaziz Osmanoğlu; 26 September 1901 – 19 January 1977) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, and grandson of Sultan Abdulaziz. He was the 40th head of the Ottoman dynasty from 1973 to 1977.

Early life

Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz was born on 26 September 1901 in the Ortaköy Palace. His father was Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, son of Sultan Abdulaziz and Gevheri Kadın, and his mother was Neşefelek Hanım. He was the eldest child of his father and the only child of his mother. He had two younger half-brothers Şehzade Mahmud Şevket and Şehzade Ahmed Tevhid and a younger half-sister Fatma Gevheri Sultan.[1] He was educated at the Ottoman Military College.[2]

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Abdulaziz and his family moved to Cimiez, Nice, France. They bought a villa near the Villa Carabacel which belonged to Seniha Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I.[3] Here his father died in 1927.[1] Abdulaziz then settled in Cairo, Egypt.[4]

Personal life

Mehmed Abdulaziz's only wife was Berkemal Hanım.She was the eldest daughter of Ali Reza Bey of the Yeğen family, a family related to Muhammad Ali Pasha, and his wife Nimet Hanım.[5] She was born on 16 March 1911 in Cairo, Egypt. They married on 21 February 1929 in Cairo, Egypt. The two together had one daughter, Hürrem Sultan, born on 31 December 1939. Berkemal died on 13 January 1962.[1] Her third youngest sister, Nafia Hanım, was married to Mehmed Orhan, 42nd head of the Ottoman dynasty from 1983 to 1994, and was the mother of Fatma Necla Sultan.[5]

Later life and death

Ahmed Nihad became the head of the exiled Imperial family in August 1944, following the death of Abdulmejid II. But Şehzade Ömer Faruk did not accepted him as head of the family. On the other hand his wife Sabiha Sultan backed the council's decision and approved the choice of leader. On this occasion Mehmed Abdulaziz, and his cousins Şükriye Sultan, and Mihrişah Sultan, sided with Ömer Faruk.[3]

After the Egyptian revolution of 1952, President Gamal Abdel Nasser expelled him from Egypt, after his refusal to accepted Egypt's identity law. He then went to Nice, France with the help of the then president of France Charles de Gaulle, who gave him French passport. He was also given a monthly salary of fifty thousand francs.[4]

In 1973, after the death of Osman Fuad, he became the 40th head of the Ottoman dynasty.[6] He died on 19 January 1977 in Nice, France and was buried there,[1] and was buried in East Side cemetery in Nice.[7]

Issue

Name Birth Death Notes
Hürrem Sultan 31 December 1939[1] 5 March 1999[1] born in Cairo, Egypt;[1] died unmarried in Nice, France, and buried there;[7]

Ancestry

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 17.
  2. ^ Kırpık, Cevdet (2010-06-01). "II. Meşrutiyet'ten Sonra Şehzade Eğitiminde Değişim". Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (in Turkish). 2010 (21): 99–130.
  3. ^ a b Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. pp. 17, 207. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
  4. ^ a b Bardakçı, Murat (2008). Son Osmanlılar: Osmanlı Hanedanı'nın Sürgün ve Miras Öyküsü. İnkılâp. p. 115. ISBN 978-9-751-02616-3.
  5. ^ a b Vâsıb, Ali; Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2004). Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. YKY. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-9-750-80878-4.
  6. ^ Öztuna, Y. (1986). Osmanli devleti tarihi. Kültür yayınları serisi. Faisal Finans Kurumu. p. 545.
  7. ^ a b PAZAN, İbrahim (2014-12-18). "HANEDAN NEREDE ÖLDÜ NEREYE GÖMÜLDÜ?". ibrahimpazan.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-02-20.
Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz
Born: 26 September 1901 Died: 19 January 1977
Preceded by Head of the Osmanoğlu family
19 May 1973 – 19 January 1977 		Succeeded by