Sultanzade Ali Bey (; 29 September 1921 – 2 December 1971) also Ali Akoğlu, was a Turkish military pilot. He was the son of Naciye Sultan and

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Early life

Sultanzade Ali Bey was born on 29 September 1921 in

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, Germany. His father was

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, son of Ahmed Bey and Ayşe Dilara Hanım, and his mother was Naciye Sultan, daughter of

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and Ayşe Tarzıter Hanım. He has two older sisters, Mahpeyker Hanımsultan and Türkan Hanımsultan. He had a younger maternal half-sister,

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, from his mother's second marriage to Mehmed Kamil Bey, younger brother of Ali's father. At time of his birth, his family was residing in Germany. His father left for

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her family remained there. Ali was born after his father left and never met him, because Enver died in Russia shortly after. After Enver death in 1922, his family returned to Istanbul. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Ali and his family settled in

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, and later in

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, his sisters went to Switzerland to their mother, however he chose to remain in Istanbul, to continue his studies. Ali was enrolled into

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where he studied for a year. Following his education at the college, he joined the military academy in 1939, following the footsteps on his father, and graduated from the academy in the winter of 1941 due to the

. Ali also studied at the

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and practiced parachuting there. In 1942, Ali travelled to England to complete his undergraduate education, and acquired his aviation training there, he returned to Turkey in 1944. Ali also served in the

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until 1956. He was able to speak English, French,

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and

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. He also served as a fire assistant in

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, England.

Personal life and death

Ali married Perizad Abedin, the daughter of Abidin Daver, a prominent journalist and politician in 1948. On 15 September 1955, she gave birth to the couple's only child, a daughter Arzu Enver in

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, Italy (she married Arslan Sadikoglu and had a son, Burak). In 1964, the couple divorced and then Ali married a foreign woman named May Britt and went to live in

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. Ali died on 2 December 1971 at the age of fifty due to a mountain accident in Australia.

Ancestry

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