Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin

Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin was born on 22 September 1874{{cite news|title= Murat Bardakçı yazdı|url= https://www.haberturk.com/yasam/haber/151510-murat-bardakci-yazdi|accessdate=26 May 2020|work=Habertürk|date=6 June 2009}}{{cite book|first=Mehmet Sürreya|last=Bey|title=Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi, Volume 1|publisher=Küğ Yayını|year=1969|pages=269}}{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=116}} in the Çırağan Palace.{{cite book|first=Lâle|last=Uçan|title=Dolmabahçe Sarayı'nda Çocuk Olmak: Sultan Abdülaziz'in Şehzâdelerinin ve Sultanefendilerinin Çocukluk Yaşantılarından Kesitler|publisher=FSM İlmî Araştırmalar İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi|year=2019|pages=233}} His father was Abdulaziz, son of Mahmud II and Pertevniyal Sultan, and his mother was Gevheri Kadın.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=281}} He was the youngest son of his father and the second child of his mother. He was the younger full brother of Esma Sultan.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=233}}

Abdulaziz was deposed on 30 May 1876 and was succeeded by his nephew Murad V. However Abdulaziz's entourage didn't wanted to leave the Dolmabahçe Palace. He was transferred to Feriye Palace the next day. On 4 June 1876,{{cite book|first=Roderic H.|last=Davison|title=Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1876|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=December 8, 2015|pages=341|isbn=978-1-400-87876-5}} Abdulaziz died under mysterious circumstances.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=43}}

Seyfeddin began his education at Ilhamur Mansion in 1879, along with his siblings Esma Sultan and Şehzade Mehmed Şevket and Sultan Abdul Hamid II's children Şehzade Mehmed Selim and Zekiye Sultan.{{cite book|first=Cevriye|last=Uru|title= Sultan Abdülhamid'in kızı Zekiye Sultan'in Hayati (1872-1950)|year=2010|pages=6}} He spent his childhood and early youth in Feriye Palace along with his sister and mother. He took art and painting lessons at a young age, and was known to be a great composer.{{cite web|title= SEYFEDDİN EFENDİ, Şehzade (1874-1927) Hânende ve bestekâr.|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/seyfeddin-efendi-sehzade|website= İslam Ansiklopedisi|access-date=26 May 2020}} His music teachers were Tanbûrî Cemil Bey and Santûrî Edhem Efendi. Besides music he was known for his paintings, poetry and revelation.

Seyfeddin had been allocated apartments in the Feriye Palace, and owned a villa in Saudiye. He used to spend his summers in his villa in Saudiye and winters in the Feriye Palace. He also owned a mansion in Camlıça. This mansion once belonged to Necip Molla (died 1890), father of Vahit Bey, a member of the former Council of the State. Seyfeddin first rented the mansion, and bought it in 1894.

Seyfeddin's first wife was Neşefelek Hanım,{{cite book|first1=Ali|last1=Vâsıb|first2=Osman Selaheddin|last2=Osmanoğlu|title=Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim|publisher=YKY|year=2004|pages=168|isbn=978-9-750-80878-4}} also known as Necmifelek.{{cite book|first=Mehmet Nermi|last=Haskan|title=Yüzyıllar boyunca Üsküdar - Volume 3|publisher=Üsküdar Belediyesi|year=2001|pages=1426|isbn=978-9-759-76063-2}} She was born on 5 January 1880. They married on 4 December 1899. She was the mother of Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz, born on 26 September 1901. She died in 1930 in Nice, France.{{cite book|first=Jamil|last=Adra|title=Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005|url=https://archive.org/details/GenealogyOfTheImperialOttomanFamily2005|year=2005|pages=17}}

His second wife was Nervaliter Hanım. She was born on 27 March 1885 in Poti, Georgia, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire. They married on 23 February 1902. On 30 July 1903, she gave birth to her first child, a son, Şehzade Mahmud Şevket, followed by twins, Şehzade Ahmed Tevhid and Fatma Gevheri Sultan, born on 2 December 1904. After the exile, she lived in France. She died in 1935 in Nice.

His third consort was Makbule Hanım. They did not have children.{{cite journal | last=Aytepe | first=Oğuz | title=Yeni Belgelerin Işığında Halifeliğin Kaldırılması ve Hanedan Üyelerinin Yurtdışına Çıkarılmaları | journal=Atatürk Yolu Dergisi | volume=8 | issue=29 | date=2002-09-01 | doi=10.1501/Tite_0000000275 | url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ankuayd/issue/1854/22587 | language=tr | access-date=2022-01-15 | pages=15–29| doi-access=free }}{{cite book | last=Bardakçı | first=M. | title=Son Osmanlılar: Osmanlı hanedanı'nın sürgün ve miras öyküsü | publisher=İnkılâp | year=2008 | isbn=978-975-10-2616-3 | page=262}}

His fourth consort was Muruvverid Hanım. They did not have children.

Seyfeddin was a proficient composer, a student of Callisto Guatelli. He used to play piano, fiddle, drums and composed them with an adequate tune. In 1914 he bought the organ from the Chapelle St. Louis and had it brought to Istanbul. His sons Mehmed Abdulaziz, Şehzade Mahmud Şevket and Şehzade Ahmed Tevhid were master drummers. His daughter Gevheri Sultan was a master violinist and drummer with many compositions. He had taught her how to compose music from different instruments, which included the oud (a lyre), the tanbur (a guitar-like instrument), and the lavta (an ancient lute).{{cite news|title=Osmanoglu, Gevher (1904—)

|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/osmanoglu-gevheri-1904|accessdate=26 May 2020|work=Encyclopedia.com}} He composed classical religious and non-religious songs. Today, only two reeds of Seyfeddin, the Khuzzam and Bayati rhymes and a few of them are known.{{cite web|title=Osmanoğulları'nın en önemli bestekárı Seyfeddin Efendi'nin kayıp besteleri bendedir|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/osmanogullari-nin-en-onemli-bestek-ri-seyfeddin-efendi-nin-kayip-besteleri-bendedir-5178727|work=Hürriyet|date=2 October 2006|access-date=12 July 2020}}

Apart from music, he also set mahya lights on the minarets of mosques of Istanbul in Ramadan. He personally measured the minarets. He was also interested in painting and sculpture, and was an organist.{{cite book|first=Douglas S.|last=Brookes|title=On the Sultan's Service: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909–1912|pages=245|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=February 4, 2020|isbn=978-0-253-04553-9}}

Mehmed Seyfeddin was enlisted in the imperial Ottoman Navy during the reign of his cousin, Sultan Mehmed V. He was given the rank of honorary captain on 7 February 1916. Two years later, on 28 July 1918, he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral,{{sfn|Korkmaz|2019|p=52}} and later to the rank of vice-admiral.{{sfn|Korkmaz|2019|p=53}}

After the Armistice of Mudros was concluded in October 1918, chaos and invasions emerged in Anatolia. The government sent counselling committees to Anatolia under the leadership of princes and invited the people to peace. For this purpose, two delegations with princes serving head were formed. One of them was sent to Anatolia and the other to Thrace. In April 1919, Seyfeddin serving as the head of one of the delegations, went to Thrace. In the delegation, there were former Minister of War Ferik Cevad Pasha, Chief of the General Staff Ferik Fevzi Pasha and two lieutenants. Scholar Ziyaeddin Efendi a representative from the Foreign Translation Office was also included in the delegation.{{sfn|Korkmaz|2019|pp=52–53}}

For the purpose of bringing the Ottoman navy to a good level during the campaign carried out by the Naval Society during the First World War, Seyfeddin donated 60,000 kuruş to the society.{{sfn|Korkmaz|2019|p=53}} Seyfeddin who was keen on maritime and shipbuilding, went to Vienna and Karsbald thermal springs for treatment in 1918.{{sfn|Korkmaz|2019|p=53}}

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At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Seyfeddin and his family moved to Cimiez, Nice, France. They bought a villa near the Villa Carabacel which belonged to his cousin Seniha Sultan.{{sf|Bardakçı|2017|p=117}} He died on 19 October 1927 at the age of fifty-three and was buried in the cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Damascus, Syria.

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;Ottoman honours

• Order of the House of Osman, Jeweled{{cite book|author=Yılmaz Öztuna|title=Başlangıcından zamanımıza kadar büyük Türkiye tarihi: Türkiye'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi|year=1978|publisher=Ötüken Yayınevi|page=164}}{{cite book|title=Salnâme-i Devlet-i Âliyye-i Osmanîyye, 1333-1334 Sene-i Maliye, 68. Sene|publisher=Hilal Matbaası|year=1918|pages=64–65}}
• Order of Glory, Jeweled
• Order of Osmanieh, 1st Class, 27 July 1884;{{sfn|Korkmaz|2019|p=52 n. 40}} Jeweled;
• Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled
• Liakat War Medal in Gold
• Hicaz Demiryolu Medal in Gold
• Ottoman War Medal

;Foreign honours

• {{Flagcountry|Austria-Hungary}}: Grand-Cross Order of Leopold, 6 June 1918{{cite thesis|first=Lâle|last=Uçan|title=Son Halife Abdülmecid Efendi'nin Hayatı - Şehzâlik, Veliahtlık ve Halifelik Yılları |url=http://nek.istanbul.edu.tr:4444/ekos/TEZ/60731.pdf |publisher=Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences |type=PhD Thesis |year=2019|pages=59}}

;Honorary military appointments

• 7 February 1916: Captain, Ottoman Navy
• 28 July 1918: Rear-Admiral, Ottoman Navy
• Vice-Admiral, Ottoman Navy

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{{Reflist|2}}

• {{cite book|first=Murat|last=Bardakçı|title=Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-9-774-16837-6}}
• {{cite book |last=Brookes |first=Douglas Scott |title=The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem|year=2010|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-78335-5}}
• {{cite journal | last=Korkmaz | first=Mehmet | title=Denizin Saraylıları: Bahriye'de Osmanlı Şehzadeleri | journal=Hazine-i Evrak Arşiv ve Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi | volume=1 | issue=1 | date=2019-12-30 | pages=42–65 | url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/hed/issue/51324/667780 | language=tr}}
• {{cite book|first=Mustafa Çağatay |last=Uluçay|title=Padişahların kadınları ve kızları|location=Ankara|publisher= Ötüken|year=2011|isbn=978-9-754-37840-5}}

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