Hatice Sultan (daughter of Murad V)

Hatice Sultan (5 May 1870 – 13 March 1938) was the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Murad V (1840–1904) and his third wife the Natukhai, Şayan Kadın.

Life

Hatice Sultan was born in Kurbağalıdere Köşkü on 5 May 1870, as the oldest daughter of Murad V and his third wife Şayan Kadın. After Murad's deposition in 1876, he was confined in the Çırağan Palace. Hatice also followed him into confinement. She had been taught French by her father and Gevherriz Kalfa.

First she married Damat Vizier Ali Vasif Pasha (c. 1870 – 1918) on 3 September 1901 at Yıldız Palace and later divorced on 20 September 1908 in Ortaköy. She later married the Chief Secretary of Foreign Ministry and son of Hayri Bey, Damat Rauf Hayreddin Bey (1871 – 1936, Beirut, Lebanon) on 1 May 1909 at Ortaköy Palace and divorced on 16 June 1918. She had three children:

• Ayşe Hanımsultan (1902 – ?), by Ali Vasıf Pasha, married İşkodralızâde Celal Bey in 1920. They left Istanbul after marriage and moved to Shkodër, where the İşkodralızâde Clan originally comes from, and their descendants live in Turkey and Germany today.
• Sultanzade Hayri Bey (19 June 1912 – ?) by Rauf Hayreddin Bey.
• Selma Hanımsultan Raouf (13 April 1914 – 13 January 1941), married Syed Sajid Hussain Zaidi de Kotwara (1910 – 1991) in 1938, and had issue:
  • Kenizé Mourad (born 15 June 1940 in Paris)

After the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate by the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey in 1924 (the monarchy had already been abolished two years earlier), Hatice went together with her son, Sultanzade Hayri Bey, and her daughter, Selma Hanımsultan, into exile in Beirut, Lebanon. Hatice Sultan died on 13 March 1938 in Beirut and was buried in Damascus.

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