Nükhetsezâ Hanım

Nükhetsezâ Hanım was born on 2 January 1827. She was the daughter of the Abkhazian nobleman Baras Hatuğ Bey and his wife, the Georgian Ferhune Hanim, and her real name was Hatice.

She grew up at court under the tutelage of Bezmiâlem Sultan, mother of Abdülmecid I, where she take the name of Nükhetseza.{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2008|p=600}} She was an excellent singer and a good painter and player of piano.

She married Abdulmejid on 21 October 1841, that he had fallen in love with her after hearing her sing, and was given the title of "Second Ikbal". In 1842 she give birth her first child, a daughter, Aliye Sultan, who died in the same year. In 1845, was given the title of "BaşIkbal" (First Ikbal).{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=216}} A year after the marriage, on 5 June 1846, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Şehzade Ahmed, in the Old Çırağan Palace. The prince died the next day on 6 June 1846.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=216}} In June 1846, the French Ambassador, François-Adolphe de Bourqueney, noted that, Abdulmejid, who had been away on his trip to Rumelia was interrupted suddenly, and had to return urgently to console his favorite who just had an "unhappy childbirth".{{cite book|first=Edhem|last=Eldem|title=The harem seen by Prince Salahaddin Efendi (1861-1915). Searching for women in male-authored documentation|year=2018|pages=27}}

A year later, on 27 November 1847, she gave birth to her third child, a daughter, Fatma Nazime Sultan in the Old Beylerbeyi Palace.{{cite book|first=Jamil|last=Adra|title=Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005|url=https://archive.org/details/GenealogyOfTheImperialOttomanFamily2005|year=2005|pages=13}} The princess died five days later on 1 December 1847.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=226}} A year later, on 23 May 1849, she gave birth to her fourth and last child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin in the Old Beylerbeyi Palace. Burhaneddin was her only child to survive.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=217}}

Nükhetsezâ died on 15 May 1850 of tuberculosis, and was buried in the mausoleum of the imperial ladies at the Yeni Mosque, Istanbul. After her death, her son Mehmed was adopted by Neverser Hanim, another consort of Abdülmejid who had no children.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=217}}{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2008|p=601}}

• Nükhetsezâ is a character in Hıfzı Topuz's historical novel Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman (2009).{{cite book|author=Hıfzı Topuz|title=Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman|year=2009|pages=196|publisher=Remzi Kitabevi|isbn=978-975-14-1357-4}}

• Ikbal (title)
• Ottoman Imperial Harem
• List of consorts of the Ottoman sultans

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