Şehzade Ahmed Nuri

Şehzade Ahmed Nuri Efendi (; 12 February 1878 - 7 August 1944) was an Ottoman prince, son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and his consort Bedrifelek Kadın.

Early years Şehzade Ahmed Nuri was born on 12 February 1878 in the Yıldız Palace. His father was Abdul Hamid II, son of Abdulmejid I and Tirimüjgan Kadın. His mother was Bedrifelek Kadın, daughter of Prince Kerzedzh Mehmed Bey. He was the third child, the second son and the youngest child of his mother. He had a brother, Şehzade Mehmed Selim, eight years older than him, and a sister, Zekiye Sultan, six years older than him.

Ahmed Nuri's circumcision took place in 1891, together with his half-brothers, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, and Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin. His early education took place in the princes school. He was then enrolled in the Ottoman Military College. He held the rank of Major of Cavalry Regiment in the Imperial Ottoman Army. He was then promoted to Colonel, and later to brigadier.

He was a very clever, sensitive person, and for this reason, he always suffered misfortune. He had an extraordinary talent for painting. He had taken lessons from the Italian painter Salvatore Valery, who also taught at the Sanâyi-i Nefise Mektebi. He used to paint colored pictures on glass. In 1901, after working for days, he made a portable bathhouse the size of a small tent for his father as a gift for the 25th anniversary of his accession to the throne. Nuri, however, remained in Istanbul. Abdul Hamid's whole family was expelled from Yıldız Palace, and most of them didn't even have a place to live in. Nuri and his elder brother, Şehzade Selim, initially settled in the mansion of their sister Zekiye Sultan, until Nuri was allocated a mansion in Büyükdere Avenue. She was born in 1883. Her father was Ilyas Ali Bey, In exile, the prince fell into financial troubles. His villa in Yıldız was seized, and the money from the villa in Feneryolu quickly ran out. A young Greek man, whom he had met in Nice and was on good terms with, helped the prince by giving him a certain amount of money.

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