Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin

Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin Efendi (; 19 May 1904 – 1966) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Selim Süleyman and grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I.

Early life Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin was born on 19 May 1904 in the Feriye Palace. His father was Şehzade Selim Süleyman, son of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Serfiraz Hanım, and his mother was Ayşe Tarzıter Hanım, an Abkhazian from the Barğan-Ipa family. He had one full sister, Emine Naciye Sultan, seven years older than him, and an elder half-brother, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülhalim.

Education and career Şerafeddin began his education in the Ihlamur Pavilion. His brother-in-law, Enver Pasha decided that the young princes should receive a military education, and for this purpose he had allocated the Ihlamur Pavilion as the Princes' School. It became compulsory for all princes below the age of fifteen to attend this school. Besides their military training, they were taught literature, history, religion, mathematics, and geometry.

In1715, Şerafeddin attended, along with Şehzade Ömer Faruk, son of Abdulmejid II, the Theresian Military Academy, a school created by the Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna. Enver Pasha thought they should not be trained in the land of the waltz as "ballroom officers," but instead should proceed to Potsdam, where they would receive a Prussian education and become strong, reliable officers. So they were transferred from Vienna to Potsdam Military Academy in Prussia.

Personal life Şerafeddin married twice and had one daughter. She was born on 24 February 1906 in her father's villa in Çamlıca. She was born on 8 October 1911 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Honours Order of Osmanieh, 1st Class Bezmiâlem Mübeccel Sultan (Beirut, 10 May 1929 - Istanbul, 1 July 1993) - with Semahet Hanım. Buried in Zincirlikuyu cemetery. She married Ihlan Baransel (1924 - 24 April 1997) in Istanbul in December 1954 and had a son: Sultanzade Cengiz Baransel (b. 1965). He married Shenay Küçük and has a son: Kaan Baransel (b. 1994)

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