Fatma Sultan

Fatma Sultan (; 19 June 1879 – 20 November 1932) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Murad V and Resan Hanım.

Early life Fatma Sultan was born on 19 June 1879, during the third year of her family's confinement in Çırağan Palace. Her father was Murad V, son of Abdulmejid I and Şevkefza Kadın. She was named after Murad's favourite sister, Fatma Sultan, and after her maternal grandmother. Her mother was Resan Hanım. She was the sixth child, and third daughter of her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had a sister, Aliye Sultan, one year younger than her. She was the first of Murad's children born after he was deposed and the first born in the Çırağan Palace during his confinement there.

According to Filizten Hanım, Fatma was calm, dignified, serious-minded, polite, and gentle, differentiated by her elder half-sisters, Hatice Sultan and Fehime Sultan. She spent a substantial part of her time playing the piano and reading books in French. Unlike her half-sisters, she chose not to leave the palace to marry before her father's death, because Abdul Hamid II had stipulated that any of Murad's daughters who married could never see him or their family again. After the death of her father, Sultan Murad, in 1904, her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end.

Marriage In 1907, Abdul Hamid arranged Fatma's marriage to Karacehennemzade Refik Bey, who was eight years her junior, Order of Charity, 1st Class Sultanzade Mehmed Murad Bey August 1910 January 1911 Died in infancy Sultanzade Celaleddin Iris Bey 23 April 1916 18 November 1997 Married Telgüzar Hanım (died in 2014) and had a son, Faik Iris (Sofia, 1945 - 1993), and a daughter, Resan Iris (born on 15 November 1956), married Deveci, she had issue, a daughter, Serra Deveci (born on 19 March 1979), married Tuncer, and a son, Emirhan Deveci (born on 23 March 1991); buried in New Mosque, Istanbul

In literature and popular culture In the 2017 TV series Payitaht: Abdülhamid, Fatma Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Alara Turan. Fatma Sultan is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).

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