Hümeyra Hanımsultan

Hümeyra Hanımsultan
Born4 June 1917
Nişantaşı, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died17 May 2000(2000-05-17) (aged 82)
Kuşadası, İzmir, Turkey
Spouse
Fahir Bey
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(m. 1939; div. 1942)​
Halil Özbaş
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(m. 1944; died 1963)​
Issue
  • Second marriage
  • Ismail Halil Özbaş
  • Hanzade Özbaş
Names
Turkish: Suade Hümeyra Hanımsultan
Ottoman Turkish: سعاده حمیرہ خانم سلطان
FatherIsmail Hakkı Bey
MotherFatma Ulviye Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam

Suade Hümeyra Hanımsultan (Ottoman Turkish: سعاده حمیرہ خانم سلطان, "good luck" and "red"; also Hümeyra Özbaş; 4 June 1917 – 17 May 2000) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Fatma Ulviye Sultan, daughter of Mehmed VI and Nazikeda Kadın, and her first husband Ismail Hakkı Bey.

Biography

Suade Hümeyra Hanımsultan was born on 4 June 1917 at her mother's mansion in Nişantaşı.[1] She was the only child of Ulviye Sultan, daughter of Sultan Mehmed VI[1] and Nazikeda Kadın,[2] and Ismail Hakkı Bey, son of the last grand vizier Ahmet Tevfik Pasha[1] and Elisabeth Tschumi. Her parents divorced in 1922, and her mother remarried in 1923.[3] At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Hümeyra and her family settled in San Remo, Italy next to her grandfather, Sultan Mehmed. After his death in May 1926, they moved to Monte Carlo, and later to Alexandria, Egypt in 1929.[4]

In 1936, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk allowed her to enter Turkey.[5] In 1939, a special law was passed for the return to Turkey of the three children of Enver Pasha, and the daughter of his wife Naciye Sultan from her second marriage. As Hümeyra's father had taken part in the War of Independence, she was also allowed to return to her country under the same law.[6] The same year, she married Fahir Bey and went to America. They divorced in 1942.[5]

She then taught Turkish at the Princeton University, where she met her future husband, Halil Özbaş. He came from a well-known family from Söke. They married in 1944, and had two children,[5] Ismail Halim, born on 6 October 1945,[7] and Hanzade, born on 4 October 1953.[7] She was widowed at Halil's death in 1963 and settled in İzmir, where she lived with her mother.[7] She was one of the founders of the Kismet Hotel in Kuşadası, İzmir. She died in Kuşadası at the age of eighty-two on 17 May 2000.[1]

Honours

Issue

Name Birth Notes
By Halil Özbaş (married 1944; 1918 – 18 November 1963)[7]
Ismail Halim Özbaş 6 October 1945 Born in Istanbul; Married Evin and had a daughter and a son, Nadia and Halil;[7]
Hanzade Özbaş 4 October 1953 Born in İzmir; Married Tevfik Moran and had two daughters, Neslişah and Mesude;[7]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bardakçı 2017, pp. xv, 295 n. 13.
  2. ^ Bardakçı 2017, p. 9.
  3. ^ a b c d Fiedler, Andrea (1998). "Elisabeth Tschumi 1859–1949 die Frau des letzten Grosswesirs". 41. Jahrbuch des Oberaargaus: 73–92. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 709. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  5. ^ a b c Bardakçı, Murat (2008). Son Osmanlılar: Osmanlı Hanedanı'nın Sürgün ve Miras Öyküsü. İnkılâp. pp. 37–39. ISBN 978-9-751-02616-3.
  6. ^ Bardakçı 2017, p. 295 n. 13.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 40.
  8. ^ Bardakçı 2017, p. 36.
  9. ^ a b ÇELİK, Hatice (2018-09-07). "SON SADRAZAM AHMET TEVFİK PAŞA". Gazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 5 (14): 451–468.

Sources

  • Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.