Suade Hümeyra Hanımsultan ( ota, سعاده حمیرہ خانم سلطان, "''good luck''" and "''red''"; also Hümeyra Özbaş; 4 June 1917 – 17 May 2000) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Fatma Ulviye Sultan, daughter of

Mehmed VI Mehmed VI Vahideddin ( ota, محمد سادس ''Meḥmed-i sâdis'' or ''Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn''; tr, VI. Mehmed or /; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba () among the Osmanoğlu family, was the 36th and last Sultan of the O ...

and Nazikeda Kadın, and her first husband Ismail Hakkı Bey.

Biography

Suade Hümeyra Hanımsultan was born on 4 June 1917 at her mother's mansion in Nişantaşı. She was the only child of Ulviye Sultan, daughter of Sultan

and Nazikeda Kadın, and Ismail Hakkı Bey, son of the last grand vizier

Ahmet Tevfik Pasha Ahmet Tevfik Pasha ( ota, احمد توفیق پاشا‎; 11 February 1845 – 8 October 1936), later Ahmet Tevfik Okday after the Turkish Surname Law of 1934, was an Ottoman statesman of Crimean Tatar origin. He was the last Grand vizie ...

and Elisabeth Tschumi. Her parents divorced in 1922, and her mother remarried in 1923. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Hümeyra and her family settled in San Remo,

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next to her grandfather, Sultan Mehmed. After his death in May 1926, they moved to

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, and later to

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in 1929. In 1936,

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allowed her to enter Turkey. In 1939, a special law was passed for the return to Turkey of the three children of

Enver Pasha İsmail Enver, better known as Enver Pasha ( ota, اسماعیل انور پاشا; tr, İsmail Enver Paşa; 22 November 1881 – 4 August 1922) was an Ottoman military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who formed one-third ...

, and the daughter of his wife Naciye Sultan from her second marriage. As Hümeyra's father had taken part in the

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, she was also allowed to return to her country under the same law. The same year, she married Fahir Bey and went to America. They divorced in 1942. She then taught

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at the

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, where she met her future husband, Halil Özbaş. He came from a well-known family from

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. They married in 1944, and had two children, Ismail Halim, born on 6 October 1945, and Hanzade, born on 4 October 1953. She was widowed at Halil's death in 1963 and settled in

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, where she lived with her mother. She was one of the founders of the Kismet Hotel in Kuşadası,

. She died in Kuşadası at the age of eighty-two on 17 May 2000.

Honours

Order of the House of Osman The Order of the House of Osman ( ota, نشانِ خاندانِ آلِ عثمان) was an order of the Ottoman Empire founded on 31 August 1893 by Sultan Abdul Hamid II. It was awarded to senior male and female members of the Imperial family an ...

, ''1922''

Issue

Ancestry

References

Sources

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