Fatma Saliha Sultan (; "''who abstain one'' and "''devoutus one''"; 10 August 1862 – 1941) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan

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and

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Early life

Saliha Sultan was born on 10 August 1862 in at the

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. Her father was Sultan

, son of

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and

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, and her mother was

, the daughter of Prince Mahmud Dziapş-lpa and Princess Halime Çikotua. She was the eldest daughter of her father and the second child of her mother. She was the younger full sister of Crown Prince

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and the elder sister of Şehzade Mehmed Selim, who died at the age of one In 1869 she met with the Princess of Wales

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when the latter visited

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with her husband the

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Albert Edward (future

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). Her father Abdulaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876, his nephew

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became the Sultan. He was transferred to the

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the next day. Her mother and other women of Abdulaziz's entourage didn't want to leave the Dolmabahçe Palace. So they were grabbed by hand and were sent out to the Feriye Palace. In the process, they were searched from head to toe and everything of value was taken from them. On 4 June 1876, Abdulaziz died under mysterious circumstances. Saliha Sultan, a fourteen-year-old girl, continued to live in the Feriye Palace with her mother and nineteen-year-old brother.

Marriage

In 1875, Saliha Sultan was engaged to Ibrahim Hilmi Pasha, the son of the

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. However, the engagement was broken off, after the dismissal of her father in 1876. In 1889, Sultan

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arranged her trousseaux and marriage together with her two sisters, Princesses

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and

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, as well as his own daughter, Princess Zekiye Sultan. She married Ahmed Zülkefil Pasha, the son of Kurdzade Ismail Hakkı Pasha, on 20 April 1889 in the

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. He became a

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. The couple were given a waterfront palace located in Fındıklı,

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. The two together had a daughter named Kamile Hanımsultan, born in 1890 and died in 1896 at the age of six. Following the imperial family was sent to exile in 1924, Saliha and her husband settled in

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, where they lived in poverty.

Death

Saliha Sultan died in 1941 aged around 79, in Cairo, Egypt, and was buried in the mausoleum of Khedive Tewfik. Her husband died the same year.

Honours

* Order of the House of Osman * Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled * Order of Charity, 1st Class

Issue

Ancestry

References

Sources

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