Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin ( ota, شهزادہ احمد کمالالدین; 16 July 1848 - 26 April 1905) was an Ottoman prince, son of Sultan

Abdulmejid I Abdulmejid I ( ota, عبد المجيد اول, ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd-i evvel, tr, I. Abdülmecid; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839. His reign was notable for the r ...

and his seventh wife

Verdicenan Kadın ota, وردجنان قادین , birth_name = Saliha Achba Hanim , birth_date = 1825 , birth_place = Sukhum, Abkhazia , death_date = , death_place = Feriye Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey) , ...

Early life

Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin was born on 16 July 1848 in the

Çırağan Palace Çırağan Palace ( tr, Çırağan Sarayı), a former Ottoman Empire, Ottoman palace, is now a five-star hotel in the Kempinski, Kempinski Hotels chain. It is located on the European shore of the Bosporus, between Beşiktaş and Ortaköy in Istan ...

. His father was Sultan

, son of Sultan

Mahmud II Mahmud II ( ota, محمود ثانى, Maḥmûd-u s̠ânî, tr, II. Mahmud; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. His reign is recognized for the extensive administrative, ...

and Bezmiâlem Sultan. His mother was

, daughter of Prince Kaytuk Giorgi Achba and Princess Yelizaveta Hanım. He had a full sister, Münire Sultan, three years elder than him. Kemaleddin and his brothers, Princes Mehmed Reşad (future Sultan

Mehmed V Mehmed V Reşâd ( ota, محمد خامس, Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; tr, V. Mehmed or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) reigned as the 35th and penultimate Ottoman Sultan (). He was the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I. He succeeded his half-brother Ab ...

), Mehmed Burhaneddin, and Ahmed Nureddin were circumcised on 9 April 1857 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. After Abdulmejid's death in 1861, Kemaleddin and his mother settled in the

Feriye Palace The Feriye Palace ( tr, Feriye Sarayı) is a complex of Ottoman imperial palace buildings along the European shoreline of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently, the buildings host educational institutions such as a high school and a ...

. Kemaleddin like his brothers, Sultan

Murad V Murad V ( ota, مراد خامس, translit=Murâd-ı ḫâmis; tr, V. Murad; 21 September 1840 – 29 August 1904) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reigned from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the ...

and Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin joined Proodos ("Progress" in Greek) Masonic lodge in 1875. This lodge was founded in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul in 1867, as an associate of the French lodge “Grand Orient.” The lodge's rituals were conducted in both Turkish and Greek.

Ali Suavi incident

After the deposition of Sultan Murad on 30 August 1876, their half-brother, Sultan

Abdul Hamid II Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...

ascended the throne, and Kemaleddin became second in line to the throne. Murad and his family were then confined to the

. On 20 May 1878, an attempt was made to liberate Murad from the Çırağan Palace, and restore him to the throne. Kemaleddin and his younger half-brother

Şehzade Selim Süleyman Şehzade Selim Süleyman ( ota, شهزاده سلیم سلیمان; 25 July 1860 – 12 July 1909) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I, and his wife Serfiraz Hanım. Early life Şehzade Selim Süleyman was born on 25 July ...

, and half-sisters, Fatma Sultan and

Seniha Sultan Seniha Sultan ( ota, سنیحه سلطان; "''Pearl''"; 5 December 1851 – 15 September 1931) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Nalandil Hanım. She was the half-sister of Sultans Murad V, Abdul Hamid II, Mehmed ...

, and her husband Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha were all involved in the plot. They all wanted to see the rightful Sultan on the throne. The relations between Sultan

and Kemaleddin were sour. And so, he believed that Murad should be restored to the throne. It is said that in the days when Abdul Hamid was a prince, Kemaleddin once ran into pressing financial difficulties. He applied to the wealthy Abdul Hamid for funds and even sent over valuable objects as security for a loan. But Abdul Hamid replied, "I'm no petty money changer! Since he wants to pawn something for money, let him try the money changes in the Caviar Building!" Kemaleddin took offence at this, and ever afterwards relations between the two were frosty. During the incident Ali Suavi, the radical political opponent of Abdul Hamid's authoritarian regime stormed the palace with a band of armed refugees from the recent

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 ( tr, 93 Harbi, lit=War of ’93, named for the year 1293 in the Islamic calendar; russian: Русско-турецкая война, Russko-turetskaya voyna, "Russian–Turkish war") was a conflict between th ...

. Ali Suavi's men were unable to overcome the fierce resistance of the Beşiktaş police prefect, Hacı Hasan Pasha. The plot failed, and Ali Suavi and most of his men were killed. In the aftermath, security at the Çırağan Palace was tightened.

Personal life

Kemaleddin's only wife was Fatma Sezadil Hanım. She was born in 1856 in

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. They married on 23 April 1876 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. She was the mother of princesses Atiyetullah Sultan, and Münire Sultan. She died on 9 February 1943 in Istanbul. Kemaleddin was allocated apartments in the

, and shared the apartments of the crown prince located in the

Dolmabahçe Palace Dolmabahçe Palace ( tr, Dolmabahçe Sarayı, ) located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coast of the Bosporus strait, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 t ...

with Şehzade Mehmed Reşad (future Sultan

), after he became second in line to the throne in 1876. However, after the 1894 earthquake, the crown princes apartments were damaged, and two new pavilions, known as the "Hareket Pavilions", were constructed. Kemaleddin was then given one these pavilions. He also owned an eighteenth-century mansion in Çengelköy in the silent hills of Bosphorus. Abdul Hamid then bought this estate for Prince Mehmed Vahideddin (future

Mehmed VI Mehmed VI Vahideddin ( ota, محمد سادس ''Meḥmed-i sâdis'' or ''Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn''; tr, VI. Mehmed or /; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba () among the Osmanoğlu family, was the 36th and last Sultan of the ...

), and registered the deed of the property in his name.

Death

Ahmed Kemaleddin was killed by the order of his brother, Abdul Hamid II, on 26 April 1905 in the Beşiktaş Palace. He was buried in the royal mausoleum of Yahya Efendi,

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. He was honoured posthumously, after the 1908 resolution, for his liberal leanings.

Issue

Ancestry

References

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