Dündar Ali Osman Osmanoğlu (, ota, دوندار علي عثمان, translit= Dundār ʿAli ʿOsmān; 30 December 1930 – 18 January 2021), was a member of the
Osmanoğlu family
The Osmanoğlu family are the members of the historical House of Osman (the Ottoman dynasty), which was the namesake and sole ruling house of the Ottoman Empire from 1299 until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
There were ...
, the modern-day offspring of the
Ottoman dynasty. If the dynasty existed during his lifetime, he would have been its 45th head. He was
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as the "
Şehzade
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Dündar Ali Osman Osmanoğlu
Efendi
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Early and personal life
''Şehzade'' Dündar Ali Osman Osmanoğlu was born on 30 December 1930 in
Damascus in present-day
Syria. He was a great-grandson of
Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. His grandfather was
Şehzade Mehmed Selim
Şehzade Mehmed Selim ( ota, شہزادہ محمد سلیم; 11 January 1870 – 5 May 1937) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and his wife Bedrifelek Kadın.
Early life
Şehzade Mehmed Selim was born on 11 Janua ...
and his father was
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim ( ota, شهزادہ محمد عبدالکریم; 27 June 1906 – 3 August 1935) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Selim and Nilüfer Hanım. He was the grandson of Abdul Hamid II and Bedrifelek Kadın. ...
.
He had a full-brother,
Harun, born in 1932.
Osmanoğlu was married to Yüsra Hanım and was childless.
She died on 25 July 2017 in Damascus.
Later life and death
In 1974, the Ottoman family was allowed to return to Turkey. However, Osmanoğlu refused to migrate and stayed in
Damascus in
Syria, even though most of the family members returned to
Istanbul
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The
Syrian Civil War broke in 2011 and media reports emerged in 2013 that Osmanoğlu was stranded in Syria. In August 2017, he was evacuated on the order of
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey. Osmanoğlu was initially evacuated to
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
in Lebanon. Later, he moved to Istanbul.
Dündar Ali Osman died on 18 January 2021 in Damascus at the age of 90 and was succeeded by his brother
Harun Osman
Harun Osman Osmanoğlu (born 22 January 1932) is the 46th Head of the House of Osman, which ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 until the abolition of the Sultanate in 1922. He is known by the Ottoman imperial name as Şehzade (Prince) Harun Osm ...
as the head of the house.
Ancestry
See also
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Line of succession to the former Ottoman throne
References
1930 births
2021 deaths
People from Damascus
Heads of the Osmanoğlu family
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