Emsalinur Kadın ( ota, امثال نور قادین; "''exemplary light''"; 2 January 1866 – 1952; after the

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of 1934: Emsalinur Kaya) was the seventh consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the

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Early life

Emsalinur Kadın was born in 1866 in

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. Her father was either named Ömer Bey, or Mehmed Bey. She had a younger sister named Tesrid Hanım, who in 1894, married

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, son of Şehzade Burhaneddin, and grandson of Sultan

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. Emsalinur was known for her beauty and grace.

Marriage

Emsalinur married Abdul Hamid in 1885 in the Yıldız Palace, and was given the title of "Fifth Kadın". On 30 November 1886, a year after the marriage, she gave birth to her only child, a daughter,

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. In 1895, she was elevated to the title of "Fourth Kadın". In 1901, she was elevated to the title of "Third Kadın". She built a mosque in Kırkpınar in 1907 and was gifted a mansion in Nişantaşı, where she lived after her husband's deposition. On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in

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. Emsalinur didn't followed him, and so remained in Istanbul. After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.

Widowhood and death

In 1924, the Imperial family was sent into exile. Emsalinur followed her daughter to Paris. However, after a staying few years there, she returned to Istanbul, and settled in her mansion located in Nişantaşı. In 1934, in accordance to the

, she took the surname "Kaya". After her mansion was sold by the ministry of finance, Emsalinur settled in her granddaughter's mansion located in Erenköy known as "Galip Paşa Mansion". However, after this mansion was also sold to

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, the world's first female fighter-pilot, in 1948, Emaslinur became homeless. The government had allocated her one hundred liras per month. And with this amount of money it became difficult for her to rent a house. Emsalinur Kadin died homeless in 1952, at the age of approximately eighty-six, and was buried in Yahya Efendi Cemetery,

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. Her daughter outlived her by twenty-five years, dying in 1977.

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