Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu is the 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman

Ottoman Dynasty

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, which ruled the Ottoman Empire

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 from 1281 to 1922. The monarchy was abolished in 1922, with the modern Republic of Turkey

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 replacing it. He is the second son of Sultan Abdülmecid I

Abdülmecid I

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's grandson Ibrahim Tevfik (Beşiktaş

Besiktas

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, Istanbul

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, 24 September 1874 – Cimiez

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, Nice

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, 31 December 1931) by his fourth wife Hadice Sadiye Hanim. If reigning, he would be Grand Sultan Bayezid III. He is a member of one of the younger branches of the House of Osman

Ottoman Dynasty

The Ottoman Dynasty ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922, beginning with Osman I , though the dynasty was not proclaimed until Orhan Bey declared himself sultan...

.

Life

He is the first member of the House of Osman to be born in exile. After his parents' separation, his father died in 1931, and his mother Hadice Sadiye (Kabitache, 1 April 1898 - 9 August 1986) remarried a US citizen. In 1941 he moved to the United States with his mother, older brother and two stepbrothers. He has served in the US Army and worked in a library in New York City, New York.[3]

Succession

On 23 September 2009 with the death

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 of Ertuğrul Osman, who would have been Osman V if the Ottoman Empire still existed.

He has never married and has no children.

Ancestry

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