Mehmed Abdülaziz Efendi

Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz Efendi (; also Mehmed Abdülaziz Osmanoğlu; 26 September 1901 – 19 January 1977) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, and grandson of Sultan Abdulaziz. He was the 40th head of the Ottoman dynasty from 1973 to 1977.

Early life Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz was born on 26 September 1901 in the Ortaköy Palace. His father was Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, son of Sultan Abdulaziz and Gevheri Kadın, and his mother was Neşefelek Hanım. He was the eldest child of his father and the only child of his mother. He had two younger half-brothers Şehzade Mahmud Şevket and Şehzade Ahmed Tevhid and a younger half-sister Fatma Gevheri Sultan. He was educated at the Ottoman Military College.

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Abdulaziz and his family moved to Cimiez, Nice, France. They bought a villa near the Villa Carabacel which belonged to Seniha Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I. Here his father died in 1927.

Personal life Mehmed Abdulaziz's only wife was Berkemal Hanım. She was the eldest daughter of Ali Reza Bey of the Yeğen family, a family related to Muhammad Ali Pasha, and his wife Nimet Hanım. She was born on 16 March 1911 in Cairo. They married on 21 February 1929 in Cairo. The couple had one daughter, Hürrem Sultan, born on 31 December 1939. Berkemal died on 13 January 1962. He died on 19 January 1977 in Nice, France, and was buried there

Issue Name Birth Death Notes Hürrem Sultan 31 December 1939 5 March 1999 born in Cairo, Egypt; died unmarried in Nice, France, and buried there;

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