Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir

Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir was born on 16 January 1878 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. His mother was Bidar Kadın. He was educated privately. He had a sister Naime Sultan two years elder then him. His circumcision took place in 1890. He was also appointed Colonel of Cavalry Ertuğrul Regiment of Imperial Guards, Ottoman Army. He was a pianist and violinist.

In 1909 after the overthrow of Abdul Hamid in 1909, Abdülkadir followed him to Selonica, and returned to Istanbul the next year. Between 1909 and 1924 he was living in the Kızıltoprak Palace and Büyükdere waterfront Palace. After the empire and the caliphate dissolved in 1924, the Ottoman family went into exile.

Abdülkadir wanted to marry Macide Hanım, the youngest daughter of the late Şerif Bey, a retired military officer. Şehzade applied to the sultan for this purpose and the issue was handled in the Duty of the Dynasty of Dynasty Umur. The Assembly did not find it suitable for Prince to marry Macide. This rationale was conveyed to the prince in writing, and it was explained in clear language that it would not be appropriate to marry. [1] Şehzade Abdülkadir Efendi had another marriage without permission that the palace started a series of investigations after being aware of the marriage; penalties were imposed. Prince was married to Meziyet Hanım, who is probably the daughter of a retired lieutenant without permission from the sultan. [1]

Mehmed Abdülkadir went first to Budapest, Hungary, and later went to Sofia, Bulgaria. He died on 16 March 1944, and was buried there.[2][3]

He married five times:

• Mislimelek Hanım, (née Pakize Marşania, Sivas, c. 1883 – Bierut, Lebanon, 1955), married Istanbul, Yıldız Palace, in 1898, niece of Nazikeda Kadın, consort of Sultan Mehmed VI and Eryale Hanım, consort of Şehzade Mehmed Selim, and daughter of Prince Abdülkadir Bey Maşan and Princess Mevlüde Hanım İnalipa, without issue.
• Sühendan Hanım (born Tokat), married at Istanbul, Yıldız Palace, and divorced in 1906, without issue.
• Mihriban Hanım (Istanbul, 18 May 1890 – Cairo, Egypt 1956), married at Istanbul, Yıldız Palace, on 6 June 1907 and later separated, and had:
  • Șehzade Mehmed Orhan;
• Macide Hanım (née Hadice, Adapazarı, 14 September 1899 – Vienna, 10 October 1934 and buried there), at Kızıltoprak, Asia Minor, on 1 June 1913 daughter of Mustafa Şerif Bey, Colonel in the Imperial Ottoman Army, and had:
  • Şehzade Ertuğrul Necib (Kızıltoprak, Asia Minor, 15 March 1915 – Vienna, 7 February 1994), married in Vienna on 14 August 1946 to Austrian Gertrude Emilia "Tengler" Hanım (Vienna, born 25 May 1926), and had issue.
  • Şehzade Alaeddin Kadir (Kızıltoprak, Asia Minor, 2 January 1917 – Sofia, 26 November 1999), Titular Crown Prince of Turkey from 1994 to 1999, married to Lydia "Dimitrova" Hanım, and had issue.
• Meziyet Hanım (née Fatma, Crete, c. 1908 – Istanbul, 13 November 1989, buried in Karacaahmet Cemetery), married at Kızıltoprak, Asia Minor, in 1922, daughter of Mecid Bey, Colonel in the Imperial Ottoman Army, and had:
  • Bidar Sultan (Kızıltoprak, Asia Minor, 3 January 1924 – Pest, Budapest, Hungary, 8 March 1924, buried in Gül Baba Shrine)
  • Safvet Neslișah Sultan (Budapest, Hungary, 25 December 1925 – Istanbul, 30 May 2014, buried in Karacaahmet Cemetery), married firstly at Cairo, Egypt, in 1953 and divorced in 1969 to Damad Avni Bey Șirin, son of Riza Bey Șirin, married secondly in 1970 to Damad Mehmed Șefik Ziya Bey (1894–1970), and had issue.

Ottoman orders and decorations:

• Collar of the Hanedan-ı-Ali-Osman
• Nişan-ı-Ali-İmtiyaz

Foreign orders and decorations:

• Grand-Cross Order of Leopold of Austria-Hungary (1905)
• Grand-Cross Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia and Germany (1906)
• Knight, 1st class Order of Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary (1895)

• Kırpık, Cevdet (2009). Şehzade Evliliklerinde Değişim Changes in the Marriage of Ottoman Princes.

• "Ottoman Family". Official website of the immediate living descendants of the Ottoman Dynasty. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
• "Genealogy of the Ottoman Family". Retrieved 19 August 2008.
• Family Tree, descendants of Sultan Mahmud II. Retrieved 2011-02-28.