Saliha Naciye Hanım

Saliha Naciye Hanım^[a] (Ottoman Turkish: صالحہ ناجیہ خانم‎; born Zeliha Ankuap; 10 March 1887 – 4 December 1924) was the thirteenth,[3] and last wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.[4]

Saliha Naciye Hanım
Born	Zeliha Ankuap 10 March 1887 Yukarı Ihsaniye, Bartın, Ottoman Empire
Died	4 December 1924(1924-12-04) (aged 37) Erenköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial	Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divan Yolu street, Istanbul
Spouse	Abdul Hamid II
Issue	Şehzade Mehmed Abid[1] Samiye Sultan
Full name Turkish: Saliha Naciye Hanım[2] Ottoman Turkish: صالحہ ناجیہ خانم‎
House	Ankuap (by birth) Ottoman (by marriage)
Father	Arslan Ankuap
Mother	Canhız Hanım
Religion	Sunni Islam

Early life

Saliha Naciye Hanım was born on 10 March 1887 in Yukarı Ihsaniye, Bartın [5]. Born as Zeliha Ankuap, she was the daughter of Aslan Bey Ankuap (died 1916),[6] and Canhiz Hanım. She had one sister Asiye Hanım.[7]

In 1901, Kabasakal Mehmed Pasha, presented her for service in the Yıldız Palace,[8][9] where her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Saliha Naciye.[10]

Marriage

Three years into service, Abdul Hamid took notice of Saliha Naciye, and they married on 4 November 1904 in the Yıldız Palace,[11] and was given the title of "Sixth Fortunate".[3]

A year after the marriage, on 17 September 1905, she gave birth to her first child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Abid,[12] and three years later on 16 January 1909 to her second child, a daughter, Samiye Sultan, who died on 24 January 1909.[13]

In the 1909 mutiny, Kabasakal ("twisted beard") was shaved and publicly hanged,[14] and on 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[15] Naciye was close to him.[16] She and her son Abid accompanied him. But after Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, she returned to Istanbul with Abdul Hamid, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace,[3][17][18] where he died in 1918.[19]

Death

After Abdul Hamid's death, Saliha Naciye settled in a mansion at Erenköy, where she died on 4 December 1924.[11][17] She was buried in the mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II, located at Divan Yolu street.[3]

Issue

Saliha Naciye Hanım and Abdul Hamid had two children:

• Şehzade Mehmed Abid (Constantinople, Yıldız Palace, 17 September 1905 – Beirut, 8 December 1973 and buried in Damascus), married without issue.
• Samiye Sultan (Constantinople, Yıldız Palace, 16 January 1908 – Constantinople, Yıldız Palace, 24 January 1909).

In popular culture

Saliha Naciye Hanım is a character in Tim Symonds' historical novel Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman (2015).[20]

See also

• Ottoman Imperial Harem
• List of consorts of the Ottoman sultans

Annotations

1. ^
   She is also called Atike Naciye.[21][22]

References

1. Ali Vâsib (2004). Bir Şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. YKY. p. 73. ISBN 978-9-750-80878-4.
2. Banoğlu, Niyazi Ahmet (1963). Anitlari ve tarihî eserleriyle Istanbul. Yeni C̣iǧir Kitabevi. p. 56.
3. Uluçay 2011, p. 252.
4. Açba, Leyla (2004). Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. p. 123. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
5. Öztuna 2017, p. 222.
6. Açba 2007, p. 158 n. 75.
7. Açba 2007, p. 158.
8. Açba 2007, p. 158-9.
9. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 681.
10. Örik, Nahid Sırrı (1989). Abdülhamid'in haremi. Arba. p. 41.
11. Açba 2007, p. 159.
12. Bey, Mehmet Sürreya (1969). Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi, Volume 1. Küğ Yayını. p. 126.
13. Uluçay 2011, p. 259.
14. McCullagh, Francis (1910). The Fall of Abd-ul-Hamid. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. p. 274.
15. Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
16. Tuğlacı, Pars (1985). Türkiyeʼde kadın, Volume 3. Cem Yayınevi. pp. 165, 195.
17. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 682.
18. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 681-2.
19. Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroation heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
20. Symonds, Tim (October 14, 2015). Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 978-1-780-92756-5.
21. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 680.
22. Örik, Nahid Sırrı (2002). Bilinmeyen yaşamlarıyla saraylılar. Türkiye İş Bankası. p. 145. ISBN 978-9-754-58383-0.

Sources

• Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
• Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
• Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
• Öztuna, Yılmaz (2017). II. Abdülhamid: Zamanı ve Şahsiyeti. Ötüken Neşriyat A.Ş.