Fatma Sultan

Fatma Sultan (; "one who abstain"; 1 November 1840 – 26 August 1884) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and one of his consort Gülcemal Kadın and the full sister of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Fatma Sultan was born on 1 November 1840 in the Beşiktaş Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, and her mother was Gülcemal Kadın, a Bosnian. She was the second child and eldest daughter born to her father, and the eldest daughter born to her mother. She had two twins sisters Refia Sultan and Hatice Sultan (died as newborn), one year younger than her, a brother Mehmed V, four years younger than her, and a sister Rukiye Sultan, born and died in 1850. After her mother's death in 1851, she and her siblings were adopted by Abdulmejid's first consort, Servetseza Kadın, who no had children her own. Abdülmecid wanted all his sons and daughters to have a high-level and as complete as possible education, which included both traditional subjects, including Koranic studies, and Western ones. Fatma's education began in 1847. She attended the lessons with her brother Şehzade Mehmed Reşad, her half-brothers Abdülhamid and Murad V, her sister Refia Sultan and her half-sister Cemile Sultan. First marriage