Türkan Hanımsultan
{{Short description|Ottoman princess, daughter of Naciye Sultan and Enver Pasha}}
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| birth_date = 4 July 1919
| birth_place = Kuruçeşme Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|12|25|1919|7|4|df=yes}}
| death_place = Ankara, Turkey
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Hüveyda Mayatepek|1945|1973|end=his d.}}
| issue = Osman Mayatepek
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{{langx|ota|ترکان خانم سلطان}}
| father = Enver Pasha
| mother = Naciye Sultan
| religion = Sunni Islam
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Türkan Hanımsultan ({{langx|ota|ترکان خانم سلطان}}; "queen" or "beautiful"; 4 July 1919 – 25 December 1989) also Türkan Mayatepek or Türkan Enver, was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Naciye Sultan and Enver Pasha.
Biography
Türkan Hanımsultan was born on 4 July 1919 in the Kuruçeşme Palace.{{cite book|first=Jamil|last=Adra|title=Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005|year=2005|page=13}}{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=71}}{{sfn|Sönmez|2014|p=90}} Her father was Ismail Enver Pasha, son of Ahmed Bey and Ayşe Dilara Hanım,{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=24}}{{cite book | title=Akademik araştırmalar dergisi | publisher=Maestro İnsan Kaynakları | issue=v. 9, no. 33 | year=2007 | page=218}} and her mother was Naciye Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Selim Süleyman and Ayşe Tarzıter Hanım.{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=7}} She had an older sister, Mahpeyker Hanımsultan and a younger brother, Sultanzade Ali Bey.{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|pp=119, 153}} She had a younger maternal half-sister, Rana Hanımsultan, from her mother's second marriage to Kamil Bey, younger brother of Türkan's father.{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|pp=127, 153}} In 1920, during her father's stay in Berlin, Türkan, her mother and sister Mahpeyker joined him, where her younger brother Sultanzade Ali Enver was born in 1921. Her father left for Russian SSR her family remained there.{{cite book|first=Azade-Ayse|last=Rorlich|title=Enver Pasha and the Bolshevik Revolution|publisher=University of Wisconsin—Madison|year=1972|page=79}} After his death in 1922, they returned to Istanbul.{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=IV}} At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Türkan and her family settled in Paris, France,{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=126}} and later in Nice.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=132}}
During the exile, Türkan was educated along with her siblings by her uncle, and stepfather Kamil Pasha. Kamil Pasha taught them to read and write old Turkish alphabet along with princesses Neslişah Sultan, Hanzade Sultan and Necla Sultan on every Sunday.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=132}} In 1939, a special law was passed for Türkan and her siblings, which allowed them to return to Turkey, the law was effective on 25 May 1939, after which Türkan and her siblings returned to Istanbul.{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=129}}{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=295 n. 13}}{{sfn|Sönmez|2014|pp=90–91}} During World War II, Türkan along with her sister Mahpeyker were brought to Switzerland by their uncle Nuri Pasha, however Ali chose to remain in Istanbul, due to studies, they both returned back to Istanbul in 1943.{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=131}}
Türkan studied chemistry and went on to become a chemical engineer. She also taught chemistry at various schools. She also briefly worked for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT).{{sfn|Sönmez|2014|p=94}} In 1945, Türkan married Hüveyda Mayatepek, an ambassador, and son of Hasan Tahsin Mayatepek, also a diplomat, in Istanbul. {{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=132}} The couple later settled in Geneva, Switzerland, where their only son, Osman Mayatepek was born on 1 June 1950.{{Cite web|title=Enver Paşa'nın torunu Osman Mayatepek hayatını kaybetti|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/enver-pasanin-torunu-osman-mayatepek-hayatini-kaybetti-40264733|website=Hürriyet|date=1 November 2016|access-date=6 April 2022}} Hüveyda died on 1 May 1973 in Vienna, Austria.{{sfn|Sönmez|2014|p=94}}
Türkan died on 25 December 1989 at the age of seventy in Ankara, Turkey and was buried there.{{sfn|Sönmez|2014|p=94}}{{sfn|Milanlıoğlu|2011|p=153}}
Issue
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| Name | Birth | Death | style="width:40%;" |Notes |
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| Osman Mayatepek
| 1 June 1950{{Cite web|title= Enver Paşa'nın torunu Osman Mayatepek hayatını kaybetti|url=https://www.haberturk.com/gundem/haber/1317870-enver-pasanin-torunu-osman-mayatepek-hayatini-kaybetti|website=Habertürk|date=1 November 2016|access-date=6 April 2022}} | he married twice: a woman called Anne and later Neshe Firtina on 6 July 1991. By Neshe he had a daughter, Mihrişah Türkan (b. 25 May 1952); Died and buried in Istanbul; |
Ancestry
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References
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Sources
- {{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|first=Neval|last=Milanlıoğlu|title=Emine Naciye Sultan'ın Hayatı (1896-1957)|year=2011|publisher=Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences |type=Postgraguate Thesis |url=https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/tezDetay.jsp?id=WwClKWAOk03Z_wiYQxX3Hw&no=jKGuZMQmb4gUhRzqFUURjw|language=tr}}
- {{cite journal | last=Sönmez | first=Cahi̇de | title=Sürgünden Vatana Osmanlı Hanedanının Geri Dönen İlk Üyeleri (1924-1951) | journal=Tarihin Peşinde | year=2014 | volume=6 | issue=12 | url=https://avesis.comu.edu.tr/yayin/3c5039df-aac8-4e52-b7f6-ebad4aa00952/surgunden-vatana-osmanli-hanedaninin-geri-donen-ilk-uyeleri-1924-1951 | language=tr}}
{{Daughters of the Ottoman Sultans}}
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Category:Royalty from Istanbul
Category:20th-century Ottoman princesses