Nemika Sultan

Emine Nemika Sultan (; 9 March 1888 – 6 September 1969) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Selim, son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

Early life Nemika Sultan was born on 9 March 1888 in the Yıldız Palace. Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Selim, and her mother was Iryale Hanım, the daughter of Hassan Ali Marshan and Fatma Horecan Aredba. Her mother was the sister of Nazikeda Kadın, the first wife of Sultan Mehmed VI. She was the second child and only daughter of her parents. She had an elder brother Şehzade Mehmed who died young and a paternal younger half-brother, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim. She was the granddaughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Bedrifelek Kadın and the eldest grandchild of Abdul Hamid to survive infancy.

In March 1898, she attended the wedding of her aunt Naime Sultan, daughter of Abdul Hamid II and Bidar Kadın, and Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha, son of Gazi Osman Pasha. During the ceremonial occasion, she sat with her aunts Şadiye Sultan and Hamide Ayşe Sultan.

Nemika's mother died in 1904, when she was sixteen years old. Her husband was Turkey's first mining engineer to study abroad.

Upon the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Nemika and her family settled in Paris, France, where she gave birth to her fourth and last child, a daughter named Emine Satia Hanımsultan on 15 January 1927. She was widowed at Ali Kenan's death in 1962. Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled Order of Charity, 1st Class

Issue Name Birth Death Notes By Ali Kenan Isin Bey (married 22 June 1911; 1 November 1882 – 4 April 1961) Fatma Fethiye Hanımsultan 13 November 1912 20 April 1998 Born in Göztepe Palace; Married and had issue; Died in Beirut, Lebanon, and buried there; Sultanzade Ibrahim Bey 14 September 1915 21 June 1969 Born in Göztepe Palace; Married and had issue; Died in Beirut, Lebanon, and buried there; Sultanzade Kazim Bey 1 March 1920 15 May 2003 Born in Göztepe Palace; Married and had issue; Died in Beirut, Lebanon, and buried there; Emine Satia Hanımsultan 15 January 1927 6 June 2003 Born in Paris, France; Married without issue; Died in Istanbul, Turkey, and buried there;

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