Sultanzade Ali Bey ( ota, سلطان زادہ علی بے ; 29 September 1921 – 2 December 1971) also Ali Akoğlu, was an Ottoman prince and pilot, the son of Naciye Sultan and

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 ...

Early life

Sultanzade Ali Bey was born on 29 September 1921 in

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, Germany. His father was

Ismail 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 ...

, son of Ahmed Bey and Ayşe Dilara Hanım, and his mother was Naciye Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Selim Süleyman and Ayşe Tarzıter Hanım. He has two older sisters,

Mahpeyker Hanımsultan Mahpeyker Hanımsultan ( ota, ماہ پیکر خانم سلطان; "''moon face''"; 17 May 1917 – 3 April 2000) also Mahpeyker Enver or Mahpeyker Ürgüp, was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Naciye Sultan and Enver Pasha. Biography Mahpey ...

and Türkan Hanımsultan. He had a younger maternal half-sister, Rana Hanımsultan, from his mother's second marriage to Mehmed Kamil Bey, younger brother of Ali's father. At time of his birth, his family was residing in Germany. His father left for Russian SSR her family remained there. Ali was born after his father left and never met him, because Enver died in Russia shortly after. After Enver death in 1922, his family returned to Istanbul. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Ali and his family settled in

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, and later in

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Education and career

During the exile, Ali was educated along with his siblings by his uncle, and stepfather Kamil Pasha. Kamil Pasha used to teach them the old Turkish alphabet along with Neslişah Sultan,

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and

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on every Sunday. In 1939, a special law was passed for Türkan and her siblings, which allowed them to return to Turkey, the law was effective on 25 May 1939, after which Ali and his sisters returned to Istanbul. During the

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, his sisters went to Switzerland to their mother, however he chose to remain in Istanbul, due to studies. Ali was enrolled into

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where he studied for a year. Following his education at the college, he joined the military academy in 1939, following the footsteps on his father, and graduated from the academy in the winter of 1941 due to the

. Ali also studied at the Turkish Aeronautical Association and practiced parachuting there. In 1942, Ali travelled to England to complete his undergraduate education, and acquired his aviation training there, he returned to Turkey in 1944. Ali also served in the Turkish Air Force until 1956. He was able to speak

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and Italian. He also served as a fire assistant in

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, England.

Personal life and death

Ali married Perizad Abedin, the daughter of

Abidin Daver Abidin Daver (1886, Constantinople – 8 February 1954, Istanbul) was a Turkish nationalist writer and politician. Biography He is the son of Ali Vahyi Bey and Fatma Revan. He joined Galatasaray Sports Club in 1908 and became a member. Daver s ...

, a prominent journalist and politician in 1948. On 15 September 1955, she gave birth to the couple's only child, a daughter Arzu Enver in

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, Italy (she married Arslan Sadikoglu and had a son, Burak). In 1964, the couple divorced and then Ali married a foreign woman named May Britt and went to live in

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. Ali died on 2 December 1971 at the age of fifty due to mountain accident in Australia.

Ancestry

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