Mehmed Sabahaddin

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Mehmed Sabahaddin
His Highness Prince Sultanzade Sabahaddin
Born13 February 1879
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died30 June 1948(1948-06-30) (aged 69)
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
SpouseTabinak Hanım
Kamuran Hanım
IssueFirst marriage
Fethiye Kendi Sabahaddin
FatherMahmud Celaleddin Pasha
MotherSeniha Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam

Sultanzade Mehmed Sabahaddin (13 February 1879 – 30 June 1948) was an

House of Osman (the Ottoman dynasty), of which he was a member, and his political activity and push for democracy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was exiled. He was one of the founders of the short-lived Liberty Party.[1][2][3]

Although part of the ruling Ottoman dynasty through his mother,

Young Turk and was opposed to the absolute rule of the dynasty. As a follower of Émile Durkheim, Sabahaddin is considered to be one of the founders of sociology in Turkey.[4] He established the League for Private Initiative and Decentralization (Turkish: Teşebbüs-i Şahsi ve Adem-i Merkeziyet Cemiyeti
) in 1902.

Biography

Sabahaddin (right) with his brother Lütfullah.

Mehmed Sabahaddin was born in

Abdulmejid I and Nalandil Hanım. His father was Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha, the son of Grand Admiral Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha.[5]

Sultanzade Sabahaddin had a versatile education at the Ottoman palace. Sabahaddin fled in late 1899 with his brother and father, who had fallen out with Abdul Hamid II, first to Great Britain, then to Geneva, the center of opposition to the Ottoman Sultan. After a warning by the Federal Council in Geneva in 1900, they left the city for Paris and London.

In the first phase of his career in political opposition (1900–1908), he sought unity between

Committee for Union and Progress (CUP). This division plagued the Young Turk movement before 1908 and would provide the central dispute in the more institutionalized political discourse of the Second constitutional era. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 and the seizure of power by the Committee of Union and Progress, Sabahaddin returned to the Ottoman Empire.[citation needed
]

His Liberty Party, standing in opposition to the Committee of Union and Progress, was banned in 1909, and he had to flee again. He played a role in the establishment of the Freedom and Accord Party. During World War I, he was the head of the opposition in exile in western Switzerland.[citation needed]

In 1919, Sabahaddin returned to Istanbul in the hope of realising his political vision, but was ultimately banned in 1924 by the victorious

House of Osman and so, from this time, Sabahaddin had to live in retirement in Switzerland. In his autobiography The Witness (1962, first edition; 1974, revised and enlargened second edition), John G. Bennett
notes that in his later years, because of his frustrations, disappointments and exile, he reportedly had become an alcoholic and had died in great poverty.

In 1952, Sultanzade Sabahaddin's remains were transferred to Istanbul and buried in the mausoleum of his father and grandfather.

Family

Sabahaddin had two wives:[6]

  • Tabinak Hanim (m. 1898 - div. 14 August 1961), with whom he had the only daughter:
    • Fethiye Kendi Hanim Sabahaddin (1899 - 1986). Unmarried without issue.
  • Kamuran Hanım. Tabinak's younger sister, they married after Sabahaddin was divorced by his first wife.

Influences on other people

Sabahaddin unknowingly influenced many people including

G.I. Gurdjieff – a man Bennett regarded as his mentor and master for the rest of his life.[7]

Ancestry

See also

References

  1. ^ Oğuz Kaan (2008). II. Meşrutiyet Döneminde Muhalefet: Ahrar Fırkası (PhD thesis). İstanbul University.
  2. ^ "Prens Sabahattin".
  3. ISSN 0036-7834
    . Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Formation of the Ottoman Liberalism" (PDF). diss.fu-berlin.de/diss/content/below/index.xml.
  5. ^ "Gdd, Prens Sebahattin Bey". gdd.org.tr Mr. Murat Kasap. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  6. ^ Adra, Jamil; Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family , 2005
  7. ^ Witness: The Story Of a Search - The Autobiography Of John G. Bennett, Bennett, John Godolphin, Revised 2nd Edition, Turnstone Books, London, 1975.

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