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Abdülmecid II

Abdülmecid II or Abdulmejid II (29 May 1868 – 23 August 1944) was the last Ottoman caliph, the only caliph of the Republic of Turkey, and head of the Osmanoğlu family from 1926 to 1944.

Biography[]

He was born on May 29, 1868 in the Dolmabahçe Palace (dolmabahche) in Istanbul (ancient Constantinople) of the then Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz. He was educated privately. On July 4, 1918, his first cousin Mehmed VI became Sultan and Abdul Mejid was named Crown Prince. He was elected by the Turkish National Assembly on November 19, 1922 after the dethronement of the last Sultan, Mehmed VI. However, the same Assembly definitively abolished the caliphate on March 3, 1924 and expelled Abd-ul-Mejid and the rest of the members of the Ottoman dynasty from the now republic of Turkey. On August 23, 1944, Abdul Mejid II died at his home on Boulevard Suchet, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris (France). He was buried in the Haram-i-Sharif in Medina (Saudi Arabia).

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