Rukiye Sultan ( ota, رقيه سلطان "''charm''";11 October 1906 20 February 1927) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of

Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin ( ota, شهزادہ محمد ضیاالدین; 26 August 1873 – 30 January 1938) was an Ottoman prince, eldest son of Sultan Mehmed V and his senior consort Kamures Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin was bor ...

, son of

Mehmed V Mehmed V Reşâd ( ota, محمد خامس, Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; tr, V. Mehmed or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) reigned as the 35th and penultimate Ottoman Sultan (). He was the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I. He succeeded his half-brother ...

Early life

Rukiye Sultan was born on 11 October 1906 in the

Dolmabahçe Palace Dolmabahçe Palace ( tr, Dolmabahçe Sarayı, ) located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coast of the Bosporus strait, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 t ...

. Her father was

, son of Sultan

and

Kamures Kadın ota, کامرس قادین , spouse = , issue = Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin , house = , father = , mother = , birth_date = 5 March 1855 , birth_place = Ganja , death_date = , death_place = Şehzad ...

, and her mother was Ünsiyar Hanım. She was the third child and daughter of her father and the second child of her mother. She had a sister,

Dürriye Sultan Dürriye Sultan ( ota, دريه سلطان; "''shining''"; 3 August 1905 15 July 1922) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin, son of Mehmed V. Early life Dürriye Sultan was born on 3 August 1905 in the Dolmabahçe ...

, one year elder then her, and a brother Şehzade Mehmed Nazım, four years younger than her. In 1915, she began her education with her sister and brother. Their teacher was Safiye Ünüvar, who taught them the Quran. In 1918, after the death of her grandfather, she moved to her father's villa located at Haydarpasha, she occupied the first floor with her mother and sister.

Marriage

In 1922, the empire was abolished and on 29 October 1923, Turkey was officially declared as a republic, after which the imperial family went into exile in March 1924. Rukiye and her family settled in Beirut, Lebanon. Here she met Abdülbaki Ihsan Bey, a descendant of

Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Sokollu Mehmed Pasha ( ota, صوقوللى محمد پاشا, Ṣoḳollu Meḥmed Pașa, tr, Sokollu Mehmet Paşa; ; ; 1506 – 11 October 1579) was an Ottoman statesman most notable for being the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Born in ...

through his son Sultanzade Ibrahim Paşah by

Ismihan Sultan ota, اسمیخان سلطان , house = Ottoman , house-type = Dynasty , father = Selim II , mother = Nurbanu Sultan , birth_date = 1545 , birth_place = Manisa, Ottoman Empire , death_date = , death_place = Co ...

(daughter of Sultan

Selim II Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى ''Selīm-i sānī'', tr, II. Selim; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond ( tr, Sarı Selim) or Selim the Drunk ( tr, Sarhoş Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ...

and

Nurbanu Sultan Nurbanu Sultan ( ota, نور بانو سلطان; "''Queen of light''", 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the principal consort of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), his legal wife, as well Valide Sultan (Su ...

). He had taken part in the Turkish War of Independence, and had been stripped from his nationality, and was forbidden from returning to Turkey. The two married in 1924, and their only daughter, Behiye Emel Nuricihan ''Hanımsultan'' was born on 15 June 1925. Six months later after the birth, Rukiye became ill. They then went to

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

for treatment.

Death

Rukiye Sultan died on 20 February 1927 at the age of twenty, in Budapest, Hungary and was buried in the tomb of sixteenth century, Ottoman Sufi,

Gül Baba Gül Baba (died 1541), also known as Jafer, was an Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent who took part in a number of campaigns in Europe from the reign of Mehmed II onwards. Biography A native of M ...

Issue

Ancestry

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