Pretenders to the Ottoman Dynasty

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The Ottoman Dynasty (or the Imperial House of Osman) (Turkish: Osmanlı Hânedanı ) ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922. Abdülmecid I is widely considered to be the last emperor of the Ottoman Empire, which is pretty funny, because while there is about as much rationale for him being emperor as for not being emperor, those that believe he is not do so with respect to a system that also has about as much rationale for existence as not. Theirs is also a system that came into being at about the same time as they were dealing that same Ottoman Empire the deathblow (The Great Game) that it would finally die of in 1924, when the Ottoman dynasty was expelled from Turkey. Theirs came into being by virtue of the excesses of that same Great Game, and other military "exploits" like it, which brought about a desire to establish overt military takeovers as subservient to "national sovereignty". All too late for the Ottoman Empire, again with the irony. Europe was once again to sweep through the area once more of course (and for what one can only hope, the last time), this time bearing a banner not of religion, nor adventurism, but democracy, to justify taking over countries by military force. Which just shows that those inventive Americans, at least of the ruling class, never let social progress get them down; if life gives you lemons (democracy), turn it into lemonade (spreading democracy).

The ironically named Ottomanism (ironic because it was actually Europeanism) put paid to lineage practices that Europeans came to call barbaric. It is not too much of a stretch to compare the Ottoman practice of succession (or the succession of European states on occasion, for that matter) to that of the fictional Klingons. It was costly to the lives and political options of able leaders, as it required a great deal of effort to defend not only their Sanjaks, but their prestige, and their literal proximity to the throne.

See Succession practices of the Ottoman Empire

The early period of the Ottoman Dynasty had a historical tradition of open succession and other atypical succession practices. During their father's lifetime, all of the adult sons of the reigning sultan would hold provincial governorships. While females were excluded from the throne, the mothers of governors eligible for the throne would accompany and mentor them while they pursued the Ghazw raiding that won them prestige and gained them followers. Upon the death of their father, the sons and their followers would vie for the throne. This was ameliorated to a great extent by a common understanding of who was favored for succession, as was made clear by appointments by the current leader of favored sons to governerships near the capital. As it was easier for troops there to move to and hold the capital than it was for troops elsewhere to travel to and take it, being given the favored governership was in many ways the same as being given the right of succession.

Post-expulsion pretenders (WP) to the Ottoman throne mark their right to succession by linear descent from Abdülmecid I, through one of his sons, Abdülmecid II and Abdülaziz.

Since 2009, the current linear descendant of Abdülmecid, head of the Ottoman Dynasty and pretender to the defunct Ottoman throne has been Bayezid Osman (b. 1924), a great-grandson of Abdülmecid I. According to genealogies on the House of Ottoman there are currently twenty-four people in the line of succession after Bayezid Osman.

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Line of succession

1. HIH Prince Şehzade Wikipedia:Dündar Aliosman Efendi (b. 1930) (descendant of Wikipedia:Abdul Hamid II)
2. HIH Prince Åžehzade Harun OsmanoÄŸlu Efendi (b. 1932) (descendant of Abdul Hamid II)
3. HIH Prince Åžehzade Cengiz Nazim Efendi (b. 1939) (descendant of Wikipedia:Mehmed V)
4. HIH Prince Şehzade Osman Selaheddin Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 1940) (descendant of Wikipedia:Murad V through Wikipedia:Ahmed IV and Ali I (Ali I Vâsib))
5. HIH Prince Şehzade Ömer Abdülmecid Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 1941) (descendant of Mehmed V)
6. HIH Prince Åžehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi (b. 1947) (descendant of Mehmed V)
7. HIH Prince Åžehzade Roland Selim Kadir Efendi (b. 1949) (descendant of Abdul Hamid II)
8. HIH Prince Şehzade Selim Djem Efendi (b. 1955) (descendant of Wikipedia:Abdülmecid I)
9. HIH Prince Şehzade Orhan İbrahim Suleiman Saadeddin Efendi (b. 1959) (descendant of Wikipedia:Abdülaziz I)
10. HIH Prince Åžehzade Orhan OsmanoÄŸlu Efendi (b. 1963) (descendant of Abdul Hamid II)
11. HIH Prince Åžehzade Eric Mehmed Ziyaeddin Nazim Efendi (b. 1966) (descendant of Mehmed V)
12. HIH Prince Şehzade Orhan Murad Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 1972) (descendant of Murad V through Ahmed IV and Ali I Vâsib)
13. HIH Prince Åžehzade Mahmud Francis OsmanoÄŸlu Efendi (b. 1975) (descendant of Mehmed V)
14. HIH Prince Şehzade René Osman Abdul Kadir Efendi (b. 1975) (descendant of Abdul Hamid II)
15. HIH Prince Åžehzade Daniel Adrian Hamid Kadir Efendi (b. 1977) (descendant of Abdul Hamid II)
16. HIH Prince Şehzade Abdulhamid Kayıhan Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 1979) (descendant of Abdul Hamid II)
17. HIH Prince Şehzade Selim Süleyman Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 1979) (descendant of Wikipedia:Murad V through Wikipedia:Ahmed IV and Wikipedia:Ali I Vâsib (Ali I))
18. HIH Prince Şehzade Nazım Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 1985) (descendant of Wikipedia:Mehmed V)
19. HIH Prince Åžehzade Yavuz Selim OsmanoÄŸlu Efendi (b. 1989) (descendant of Wikipedia:Abdul Hamid II)
20. HIH Prince Şehzade Turan Cem Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 2004) (descendant of Murad V through Ahmed IV and Ali I Vâsib)
21. HIH Prince Şehzade Tamer Nihad Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 2006) (descendant of Murad V through Ahmed IV and Ali I Vâsib)
22. HIH Prince Åžehzade Muhammed Harun OsmanoÄŸlu Efendi (b. 2007) (descendant of Abdul Hamid II)
23. HIH Prince Şehzade Batu Bayezid Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 2008) (descendant of Murad V through Ahmed IV and Ali I Vâsib)
24. HIH Prince Şehzade Ziya Reşad Osmanoğlu Efendi (b. 2012) (descendant of Mehmed V through Ömer Hilmi and Mahmud Namık)

Excluded from the Thronlist

Mehmed Selim Orhan de Turquie descendant of Abdülhamid II, (born in Paris, 3. October 1943 - dead in Germany, 17. May 1998), deprived since birth of title HIH Şehzade Timur Can Orhan Comte de Lautréamont, (born 1978), deprived since birth of title HIH Şehzade with the exclusion of their lineal descendants

NOTE: Eligibility A male person born to parents who are not married to each other at the time of birth is not included in the line of succession and passes no rights to their descendants. The subsequent marriage of the parents does not alter this. At the time of accession, the male heir to the throne must be a Muslim. Any Ottoman Prince who has changend Islam is excluded from the line of succession.

Mehmed Selim Orhan de Turquie was born before his Parents married in 1944.

Sultanas

The following is a list of current living Ottoman sultanas (princesses) and their family members, with their date of birth next to each:

• Fatma NesliÅŸah Sultana 1921
  • Sultanzade Prince Abbas Hilmi Abdulmunim Beyefendi 1941
  • Princess Ä°kbal Abdulmunim Hanımsultana 1944
• Safvet NesliÅŸah Sultana 1925
  • Sultanzade Salih Reda Beyefendi 1955
  • Sultanzade Ömer Reda Beyefendi 1959
• Fevziye Sultana 1928 - Mehmed Hüseyin Hayri 1924 (spouse)
• Fatma Necla Sultana 1933
  • Sultanzade Mehmed Erol Mangos Beyefendi 1954
  • Sultanzade Osman Cem Germann Beyefendi 1963
• Margot Leyla Sultana 1947 - Werner Schnelle 1942 (spouse)
  • Katharina Alia Schnelle Hanımsultana 1980
• Iskra Sultana 1949 - Joachim (Peter) Schlang 1940 (spouse)
  • Andrea Schlang Hanımsultana 1974
• Nilüfer Sultana 1953 - Luigi de Andrea 1953 (spouse)
• Perihan Sultana 1963
• AyÅŸe Louise Sultana 1964 - Bill Rehm 1963 (spouse)
  • Peri Kathleen Rehm Hanımsultana 1994
  • Sultanzade Zekeriya James Rehm Beyefendi 1996
• Gülhan Sultana 1968
• AyÅŸe Gülnev Sultana 1971 - Nicholas Nelson Sutton 1969 (spouse)
  • Sultanzade Maximilian Ali Sutton Beyefendi 2000
  • Sultanzade Cosmo Tarık Sutton Beyefendi 2001
  • Sultanzade Lysander Cengiz Sutton Beyefendi 2003
  • Tatyana Aliye Sutton Hanımsultana 2005
  • Sultanzade Ferdinand Ziya Sutton Beyefendi 2006
• Nurhan Sultana 1973 - Muhammed Ammar Sagherji 1972 (spouse)
  • Sultanzade Muhammed Halil Sagherji Beyefendi 2002
  • Sara Sagherji Hanımsultana 2004
• Nilhan Sultana 1987
• Nermin Zoe Sultana 1988
• Nilüfer Sultana 1995
• Berna Sultana 1998
• Asyahan Sultana 2004

Hanımsultanas

The following is a list of current living Ottoman Hanımsultanas (daughters of Ottoman princesses) and their family members, with their date of birth next to each:

• Bilun Alpan Hanımsultan 1919
  • Child: Nahide Yarullah 1941

• Behiye Emel Nuricihan Sokollu Hanımsultan 1925
  • Children: Naime Banu Hodo 1952, Rukiye Bala Hodo 1955, Nazım Hüsnü Hodo 1958

• Rana Killigil Hanımsultan 1926
  • Children: Ceyda Eldem 1952, Edhem Eldem 1960

• Perizad Kamal Hanımsultan 1936
  • Child: Cem Baykent 1961

• Hatice Türkân Ratib Hanımsultan 1941

• Spouse: Hüseyin Fehmi 1941 - 2000

• • Children: Melek Fehmi 1966, Nesrin Fehmi 1968

• Princess Sabiha Fazıla Ä°brahim Hanımsultan 1941

• Spouses: Hayri Ürgüplü 1936, Jean-Alphonse Bernard

• • Children: Ali Suat Ãœrgüplü 1967, Mehmet Selim Ãœrgüplü 1968

• Nilüfer Shafik Hanımsultan 1942

• Spouse: Wafik Tevfik 1931

• Princess Ä°kbal Abdulmunim Hanımsultan 1944

• Spouse: Mürsel Saviç 1927

• Necla Shawki Hanımsultan 1951

• Andrea Schlang Hanımsultan 1974

• Spouse: Thomas Schüttfort 1972

• • Child: Niklas Peter Schüttfort 1999

• Katharina Alia Schnelle Hanımsultan 1980

• Peri Kathleen Rehm Hanımsultan 1994

• Sara Sagherji Hanımsultan 2004

Sultanzades

The following is a list of current living Ottoman Sultanzades (sons of Ottoman princesses) and their family members, with their date of birth next to each:

• Sultanzade Osman Nami Beyefendi 1918

• Spouses: Adile Tanyeri ? - 1958, Müşfika Rothraud Granzow 1934

• • Children: Mediha Şükriye Nami 1947, Fethiye Nimet Nami 1953, AyÅŸe Adile Nami 1958, Gül Nur Dorothee Nami 1960, Sofia Ayten Nami 1961

• Sultanzade Yavuz Alpan Beyefendi 1927
  • Child: Cynthia Alpan 1962

• Sultanzade Yusuf Mecid Kefeli Beyefendi 1932

• Spouse: Anne Toudic 1930

• • Children: Agnes Nilüfer Kefeli 1959, Eva Hanzade Kefeli 1964

• Sultanzade Bereket Ali Han Bahadur Beyefendi 1933

• Spouses: Esra Birgen 1938, Ayşe Helen Simmonds (1948 – 1989), Manolya Onur 1955, Cemile Bourgos 1971

• • Children: Azmet Jah 1960, Shekyar Begüm 1962, Alexander Azam Jah 1979, Nilüfer Begüm 1991, Rahat Jah 1991

• Sultanzade ReÅŸad Beyefendi 1934

• Sultanzade Keramet Ali Han Bahadur Beyefendi 1939

• Spouse: Esin Barli

• • Children: Rafet Jah 1966, Ferhat Jah

• Sultanzade Prince Ali Beyefendi 1941

• Spouses: Wijdan Fawaz Al-Muhanna 1939, Rima al-Masry

• • Children: Princess Nafia 1966, Princess Rajwa 1968, Princess Basma Fatima 1970, Prince Muhammed Abbas 1973, Prince Jaafar 2007

• Sultanzade Prince Abbas Hilmi Abdulmunim Beyefendi 1941

• Spouse: Mediha Mümtaz 1945

• • Children: Princess Fatima Sabiha Abdulmunim Hilmi 1974, Prince Davud Abdulmunim Hilmi 1979

• Sultanzade Prince Ahmed Rifat Ä°brahim Beyefendi 1942

• Spouse: Emine Uşaklıgil

• Sultanzade Prince Asım Abubakr Beyefendi 1948

• Spouses: Firouzeh Vokhshouri 1948, Sana Kalimat 1960

• • Children: Princess Yasmine 1975, Princess Sarah 1978, Princess Noor 1982, Princess Salha 1987, Princess Nejla 1988, Prince Nayef 1998

• Sultanzade Ibrahim Turan Ratib Beyefendi 1950

• Spouse: Anne de Montozon de Leguilhac 1947

• • Children: Fatıma Nimet Selçuk MahiveÅŸ Ratib 1976
  • Karim El-Djezouli Ratib 1978

• Sultanzade Prince Osman Rifat Beyefendi 1951

• Sultanzade Mehmed Erol Mangos Beyefendi 1954

• Sultanzade Cengiz Baransel Beyefendi 1955

• Spouse: Aliye Şenay Küçük 1960

• Child: Kaan Baransel 1995

• Sultanzade Salih Reda Beyefendi 1955

• Sultanzade Ömer Reda Beyefendi 1959

• Spouse: Ceylan Fethiye Palay 1971

• • Children: Meziyet Dilara Reda 1998, NesliÅŸah Reda 2000

• Sultanzade Osman Cem Germann Beyefendi 1963

• Sultanzade Zekeriya James Rehm Beyefendi 1996

• Sultanzade Maximilian Ali Sutton Beyefendi 2000

• Sultanzade Cosmo Tarık Sutton Beyefendi 2001

• Sultanzade Muhammed Halil Sagherji Beyefendi 2002

• Sultanzade Lysander Cengiz Sutton Beyefendi 2003

• Sultanzade Ferdinand Ziya Sutton Beyefendi 2006

Hanım and Bey's

The following is a list of current living Ottoman Hanım's and Bey's (Descendants of the Ottoman Princesses) in third generationand their family members, with their date of birth next to each:

• Alp Saadeddin Mohamed Bey Osmansoy 1930

• Spouse: Arwa El Hibri

• • Children: Orhan Bey Saadeddin Osmansoy 1969,Shirin Hanım Saadeddin Osmansoy 1970,Aylin Hanım Osmansoy 1976 (descendant trough Sultanzade Saadeddin Mohamed Beyefendi - Esma Sultan - Abdülaziz I.)
• Orhan Bey Saadeddin Osmansoy 1969 (descendant trough Sultanzade Saadeddin Mohamed Beyefendi - Esma Sultan - Abdülaziz I.)

• Spouse: Serra Nemir Kirdar

• Shirin Hanım Saadeddin Osmansoy 1970 (descendant trough Sultanzade Saadeddin Mohamed Beyefendi - Esma Sultan - Abdülaziz I.)

• Spouse: Ali Faour

• • Children: Kamil Bey Mahmoud Faour (Beirut, 1999)

• Aylin Hanım Osmansoy 1976 (descendant trough Sultanzade Saadeddin Mohamed Beyefendi - Esma Sultan - Abdülaziz I.)

• Kaya Mohamed Bey Osmansoy 1937 (descendant trough Sultanzade Saadeddin Mohamed Beyefendi - Esma Sultan - Abdülaziz I.)

• Spouse: Uta Westrich

• • Children: Aydin Mohamed Bey Osmansoy 1943 (descendant trough Sultanzade Saadeddin Mohamed Beyefendi - Esma Sultan - Abdülaziz I.)

• Nor Hanım Kochersperger 1953 (descendant through Ahmed Cevdet Bey - Sultanzade Saadeddin Mohamed Beyefendi - Esma Sultan -Abdülaziz I.)

• Spouse: Richard Kochersperger

• • Children: Kyle David Bey Kochersperger 1990, Kory Henry Bey Kochersperger 1985 (descendant through Ahmed Cevdet Bey - Sultanzade Saadeddin Mohamed Beyefendi - Esma Sultan -Abdülaziz I.)

• Bulent Osman Bey 1930 (descendant trough Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Beyefendi - Naime Sultan - Abdülhamid II.)

• Spouse: Jeannine Crété

• • Children: Rémy Gengiz Bey Ossmann 1963

• Rémy Gengiz Bey Ossmann 1963 (descendant trough Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Beyefendi - Naime Sultan - Abdülhamid II.)

• Spouse: Florence Weber

• • Children: Sélim Bey Ossmann 1993 (descendant trough Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Beyefendi - Naime Sultan - Abdülhamid II.)

• Roksan Hanım Kunter 1985 (descendant trough Sultanzade Osman Nami OsmanoÄŸlu Beyefendi - AyÅŸe Sultan - Abdülhamid II.)

Ismail Halim Özbash Bey (descendant trough Hümeyra Özbas Hanım Sultan -Fatma Ulviye Sultan - Mehmed Vahideddin VI.) • Spouse: Evelyn Mayer's

• • Children: Nadia Özbash Hanim 1969,Halil Özbash Beyzade 1974 (descendant trough Hümeyra Özbas Hanım Sultan -Fatma Ulviye Sultan - Mehmed Vahideddin VI.)

Hanzade Özbash Hanım: (descendant trough Hümeyra Özbas Hanım Sultan -Fatma Ulviye Sultan - Mehmed Vahideddin VI.) • Spouse: Tevfik Moran

• • Children: Neslishah Evliyazade Hanım 1977,Masud Evliyazade Beyzade 1978 (descendant trough Hümeyra Özbas Hanım Sultan -Fatma Ulviye Sultan - Mehmed Vahideddin VI.)

See also

Wikipedia:List of admirals in the Ottoman Empire Wikipedia:List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire Wikipedia:List of Valide Sultans Wikipedia:List of Ottoman Grand Viziers Wikipedia:List of Ottoman Kaptan Pashas Wikipedia:Ottoman Dynasty

Wikipedia:Ottoman Emperors family tree Wikipedia:Ottoman Empire Wikipedia:Ottoman family tree (more detailed) Wikipedia:Pretender TuÄŸra-Sultan's Signature

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External links

• Ottoman Family. Official website of the immediate living descendants of the Ottoman Dynasty. URL accessed on 2010-02-14.
• Genealogy of the Ottoman Family. URL accessed on 2008-08-19.
• Family tree: Wikipedia:Pretenders to the Ottoman throne descended from Wikipedia:Abdülmecid II and his brother Wikipedia:Abdülaziz