Rukiye Sultan ( "''charm''", 11 October 1906 20 February 1927) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of

Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi (; 26 August 1873 – 30 January 1938) was an Ottoman prince, firstborn of Sultan Mehmed V, born by his first consort Kamures Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin was born on 26 August 1873 in his fathe ...

, son of

Mehmed V Mehmed V Reşâd (; or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a Constitutional monarchy, constitutional monarch. He had ...

Early life

Rukiye Sultan was born on 11 October 1906 in the

Dolmabahçe Palace Dolmabahçe Palace ( ) is a 19th-century imperial palace located in Istanbul, Turkey, along the European shore of the Bosporus, which served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922. Histor ...

. Her father was

, son of Sultan

and

Kamures Kadın Kamures Kadın (; meaning "Bringer of pleasure"; called also Gamres, Kamres or Kamus Kadın; 5 March 1855 – 30 April 1921) was the first and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire. Early years Kamures Kadın was born on 5 Mar ...

, and her mother was Ünsiyar Hanım. She was the third child and daughter of her father and the second child of her mother. She had a sister, Dürriye Sultan, one year elder then her, and a brother Şehzade Mehmed Nazım, four years younger than her. In 1915, she began her education with her sister and brother. Their teacher was Safiye Ünüvar, who taught them the Quran. In 1918, after the death of her grandfather, she moved to her father's villa located at Haydarpasha, she occupied the first floor with her mother and sister.

Marriage

In 1922, the empire was abolished and on 29 October 1923, Turkey was officially declared as a republic, after which the imperial family went into exile in March 1924. Rukiye and her family settled in Beirut, Lebanon. Here she met Abdülbaki Ihsan Bey, a descendant of

Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (; ; ; 1505 – 11 October 1579) was an Ottoman statesman of Serb origin most notable for being the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Ottoman Herzegovina into an Orthodox Christian family, Mehmed was recruited a ...

through his son Sultanzade Ibrahim Paşah by

Ismihan Sultan Ismihan Sultan (, "''Purity of the Khan''" or ''"Highness of the Khan''"; also Esmehan Sultan; Manisa, 1545 – Costantinople, 8 August 1585) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–74) and his favorite concubine, Ha ...

(daughter of Sultan

Selim II Selim II (; ; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond () or Selim the Drunkard (), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem Sul ...

and

Nurbanu Sultan Nurbanu Sultan (; 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583) and the Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire from ...

). He had taken part in the Turkish War of Independence, and had been stripped from his nationality, and was forbidden from returning to Turkey. The two married in 1924, and their only daughter, Behiye Emel Nuricihan ''Hanımsultan'' was born on 15 June 1925. Six months later after the birth, Rukiye became ill. They then went to

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for treatment.

Death

Rukiye Sultan died on 20 February 1927 at the age of twenty, in Budapest, Hungary and was buried in the tomb of sixteenth century, Ottoman Sufi,

Gül Baba Gül Baba (died 1541), also known as Jafer, was an Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman I () who took part in a number of campaigns in Europe from the reign of Mehmed II onwards. Biography A native of Merzifon ...

Issue

Ancestry

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rukiye Sultan 20th-century Ottoman princesses Royalty from Istanbul 1906 births 1927 deaths