Fatma Sultan (; 19 June 1879 â 20 November 1932) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Murad V and Resan Hanñm.
Fatma Sultan was born on 19 June 1879, during the third year of her family's confinement in ÃÂñraÃÂan Palace. Her father was Murad V, son of Abdulmejid I and à Âevkefza Kadñn. She was named after Murad's favourite sister, Fatma Sultan, and after her maternal grandmother. Her mother was Resan Hanñm. She was the sixth child, and third daughter of her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had a sister, Aliye Sultan, one year younger than her. She was the first of Murad's children born after he was deposed and the first born in the ÃÂñraÃÂan Palace during his confinement there.
According to Filizten Hanñm, she was calm, dignified, serious-minded, polite, and gentle, differentiated by her elder half-sisters, Hatice Sultan and Fehime Sultan. She spent an important part of her time in playing the piano and reading books in French. Unlike her half-sisters, she chose not to leave the palace to marry before her father's death, because Abdul Hamid II's condition was that any of Murad's daughters who married could never see him or their family again. After her father, Sultan Murad's death in 1904, her ordeal in the ÃÂñraÃÂan Palace came to an end.
In 1907, Abdul Hamid arranged Fatma's marriage to Karacehennemzade Refik Bey, who was eight years her junior, a diplomat and son of the Governor and Senator of Konya, Faik Bey, and grandson of Ibrahim AÃÂa. The marriage took place on 29 July 1907 in the Yñldñz Palace. He became a Damat. The couple was given Esma Sultan Mansion, located in Ortaköy, as their residence.
The marriage was happy and the two together had five children, Sultanzade Mehmed Bey, born on 1908 and died in 1911, twins Ayà Âe Hatice Hanñmsultan and Sultanzade Mehmed Ali Bey born on 20 January 1909, Sultanzade Mehmed Murad Bey born in August 1910 and died in January 1911, and Sultanzade Celaleddin Bey born on 23 April 1916.
In 1908, her mother Resan Hanim left the ÃÂñraÃÂan Palace, where she had stayed to keep company to à Âayan Kadñn, and came to live with her.
Fatma Sultan inherited her motherâÂÂs jewels when she died in 1910, but never wore them. She lived frugally and like an ordinary citizen of Istanbul, even going out herself for the shopping. She was particularly devoted to her husband.
At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, every person had to leave Turkey in seven days. Fatma Sultan, who had measles that time, was allowed to reside in Istanbul until she recovered. She and her family left Turkey in September 1924, making them the last imperial family members to leave Istanbul. They settled in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Fatma Sultan died at the age of fifty three on 23 November 1932 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and was buried there. Her husband outlived her by twenty years and died in 1952.