Hatice Şükriye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه شکریه سلطان; "respecful lady" and "grateful"; 24 February 1906 – 1 April 1972) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of heir to the throne Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, son of Sultan Abdulaziz, and Leman Hanım.

Şükriye Sultan
Born(1906-02-24)24 February 1906
Çamlıca Villa, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died1 April 1972(1972-04-01) (aged 66)
Çamlıca Villa, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divanyolu, Istanbul
Spouse
(m. 1923; div. 1927)
(m. 1935; div. 1937)
Mehmed Şefik Ziya
(m. 1949⁠–⁠1972)
Names
Turkish: Hatice Şükriye Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه شکریه سلطان
DynastyOttoman
FatherŞehzade Yusuf Izzeddin
MotherLeman Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

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Şükriye Sultan was born on 24 February 1906 in her father's villa in Çamlıca. Her father was Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin and her mother was Leman Hanım.[1] She was the second child, and eldest daughter born to her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had two younger siblings, a brother, Şehzade Mehmed Nizameddin, two years younger than her, and a sister, Mihriban Mihrişah Sultan, ten years younger than her. Her father committed suicide on 1 February 1916, when she was ten years old. She was the granddaughter of Abdulaziz and Dürrünev Kadın.[2]

First marriage

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Şükriye Sultan married her second cousin Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin,[3] son of Şehzade Selim Süleyman, and grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I. The wedding took place on 14 November 1923 in the Nişantaşı Villa. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Şükriye, and her husband moved to Paris, where they lived until 1925,[4] and then to Egypt, where she was joined by her sister Mihrişah Sultan and Cavidan Hanım, her father's second consort. Later their moved to Beirut, where the two divorced[4] in 1927.[2]

Second marriage

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Şükriye (far right) at the Ottoman family reunion circa 1938 at Villa Kamal in Maadi

On 4 September 1935, she married Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Cairo, Egypt. They divorced in 1937.[5]

On 10 February 1938,[5] she was engaged to Midhat Bey, son of Ziver Pasha.[6][7] However, the marriage, didn't take place.[6][7] In 1944, she sided with Şehzade Ömer Faruk when the council chose Şehzade Ahmed Nihad as the head of the family.[8]

Third marriage

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In April 1949,[5] she married Mehmed Şefik Ziya (1894 – 1980)[3] an American citizen of Turkish Cypriot ethnicity.[6][7] In 1952, she, her husband, and her sister returned to Istanbul after the revocation of the law of exile for princesses. Here she settled in Çamlıca Villa.[9][10]

Death

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Şükriye Sultan died on 1 April 1972 at the age of sixty-six and was buried in the mausoleum of her great grandfather Sultan Mahmud II, Divanyolu, Istanbul.[2] Mehmed Şefik afterwards married Neslişah Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir.[11]

Honours

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Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Reşad, Ekrem; Osman, Ferid (1911). Musavver nevsâl-i Osmanî. p. 68.
  2. ^ a b c Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 15, 27.
  3. ^ a b Vâsıb, Ali; Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2004). Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. YKY. p. 441. ISBN 978-9-750-80878-4.
  4. ^ a b Milanlıoğlu, Neval (2011). Emine Naciye Sultan'ın Hayatı (1896-1957). pp. 13 r. 55, 126–27.
  5. ^ a b c Ünlü, Hasan (2019). Veliahd Yusuf İzzeddin Efendi (1857-1916) (Thesis). Mimar Sinan Fine Art University Institute of Social Sciences. p. 24.
  6. ^ a b c Ercüment Ekrem Talu; Tahsin Yıldırım (2005). Şehzade Yusuf İzzeddin öldürüldü mü, intihar mı etti?. Selis. p. 16. ISBN 978-975-8724-47-5.
  7. ^ a b c Tahsin Yıldırım (2006). Veliaht Yusuf İzzeddin. Çatı Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-975-8845-21-7.
  8. ^ Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
  9. ^ Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı (1994). İstanbul ansiklopedisi. Kültür Bakanlığı. p. 536. ISBN 978-9-757-30607-8.
  10. ^ Kurşun, Zekeriya (2005). Üsküdar Sempozyumu: Bildiriler. Üsküdar Belediyesi. p. 344. ISBN 978-9-759-20195-1.
  11. ^ Bardakçı, Murat (2008). Son Osmanlılar: Osmanlı hanedanının sürgün ve miras öyküsü. İnkılâp. p. 176. ISBN 978-9-751-02616-3.
  12. ^ a b c Virgül, Issues 80-83. Pusula Yayıncılık. 2005. p. 41.
  13. ^ Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG. Künker Auktion 299 - Orden und Ehrenzeichen aus aller Welt: Das Osmanische Reich, The Ottoman Collection, Teil 2. Numismatischer Verlag Künker. pp. 146–147.