Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim


Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim was an Ottoman prince, he was son on Şehzade Mehmed Selim and Nilüfer Hanım. He was the grandson of Abdul Hamid II and Bedrifelek Kadın.
In 1933, Abdul Kerim was invited to Japan by their government, presumably with an eye towards leveraging his status as the Ottoman pretender to aid the Japanese Empire in outreach to Central Asian Muslims in conflict with the Soviet Union.
He was educated at the Galatasaray College, Istanbul.

Marriages and descendants

He married at Aleppo on 24 February 1930 and divorced in 1931 to Nimet Hanım, and had two sons:
  1. Şehzade Dündar Ali Osman Osmanoğlu, married to Yüsra Hanım, without issue
  2. Şehzade Harun Osmanoğlu, married to Farizet Darvich Hanım, and had:
  3. #Şehzade Orhan Osmanoğlu, married on 22 December 1985 to Nuran Yıldız Hanım, and had one son and four daughters:
  4. ## Nilhan Osmanoğlu Sultan, married in Istanbul on 22 September 2012 Damat Mehmet Behlül Vatansever and got issue:
  5. ### Hanzade Vatanserver Hanımsultan
  6. ### Sultanzade Vahdettin Vatanserver
  7. ## Şehzade Yavuz Selim Osmanoğlu
  8. ## Nilüfer Osmanoğlu Sultan
  9. ## Berna Osmanoğlu Sultan
  10. ## Asyahan Osmanoğlu Sultan
  11. # Nurhan Osmanoğlu Sultan, married firstly in Istanbul on 15 April 1994 and later divorced Damat Samir Hashem Bey, without issue, and married secondly to Damat Muhammed Ammar Sagherji Bey, and had one son and one daughter:
  12. ## Sultanzade Muhammed Halil Sagherji Bey
  13. ## Sara Sagherji Hanımsultan
  14. # Şehzade Abdulhamid Kayıhan Osmanoğlu
  15. ## Şehzade Muhammed Harun Osmanoğlu
  16. ## Şehzade Abdülaziz Osmanoğlu

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