Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz Efendi (; also Mehmed Abdülaziz Osmanoğlu; 26 September 1901 – 19 January 1977) was an Ottoman prince, the son of

Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin Efendi (; 22 September 1874 – 19 October 1927) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Abdulaziz and Gevheri Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin was born on 22 September 1874 in the Çırağan Palace. His ...

, and grandson of Sultan

Abdulaziz Abdulaziz (; ; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abdulmejid I in 1861. Ab ...

. He was the 40th head of the

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from 1973 to 1977.

Early life

Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz was born on 26 September 1901 in the

Ortaköy Palace Ortaköy (, ''Middle Village)'' is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 9,121 (2024). It is on the European shore of the Bosphorus. it was originally a small fishing villag ...

. His father was

, son of Sultan

and

Gevheri Kadın Gevheri Kadın (, "''gem''"; 8 July 1856 – 6 September 1884), born Emine Hanim, was a consort of Sultan Abdulaziz of the Ottoman Empire. Life Gevheri Kadın was born on 8 July 1856. She was Abkhazian, daughter of Salih Bey and Şaziye Han ...

, and his mother was Neşefelek Hanım. He was the eldest child of his father and the only child of his mother. He had two younger half-brothers Şehzade Mahmud Şevket and Şehzade Ahmed Tevhid and a younger half-sister Fatma Gevheri Sultan. He was educated at the

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. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Abdulaziz and his family moved to

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. They bought a villa near the Villa Carabacel which belonged to Seniha Sultan, daughter of Sultan

Abdulmejid I ʻAbd al-Majīd (ALA-LC romanization of , ), also spelled as Abd ul Majid, Abd ul-Majid, Abd ol Majid, Abd ol-Majid, and Abdolmajid, is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Maj ...

. Here his father died in 1927. Abdulaziz then settled in

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Personal life

Mehmed Abdulaziz's only wife was Berkemal Hanım. She was the eldest daughter of Ali Reza

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of the Yeğen family, a family related to

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, and his wife Nimet Hanım. She was born on 16 March 1911 in Cairo. They married on 21 February 1929 in Cairo. The two together had one daughter, Hürrem ''Sultan'', born on 31 December 1939. Berkemal died on 13 January 1962. Her third youngest sister, Nafia Hanım, was married to Mehmed Orhan, 42nd head of the Ottoman dynasty from 1983 to 1994, and was the mother of Fatma Necla Sultan.

Later life and death

Şehzade Ahmed Nihad became the head of the exiled Imperial family in August 1944, following the death of

Abdulmejid II ʻAbd al-Majīd (ALA-LC romanization of , ), also spelled as Abd ul Majid, Abd ul-Majid, Abd ol Majid, Abd ol-Majid, and Abdolmajid, is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Maj ...

. But Şehzade Ömer Faruk did not accepted him as head of the family. On the other hand his wife

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backed the council's decision and approved the choice of the leader. On this occasion Mehmed Abdulaziz, and his cousins Şükriye Sultan, and Mihrişah Sultan, sided with Ömer Faruk. After the

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, President

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expelled him from

, after his refusal to accepted Egypt's identity law. He then went to

with the help of the then president of

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, who gave him French passport. He was also given a monthly salary of fifty thousand francs. In 1973, after the death of Şehzade Osman Fuad, he became the 40th head of the Ottoman dynasty. He died on 19 January 1977 in Nice, France, and was buried there in the East Side cemetery in Nice.

Issue

Ancestry

References

External links

* The History Files
The Ottoman Empire

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