Suleyman Shah (; ) was, according to Ottoman tradition, the son of Kaya Alp and the father of ErtuÃÂrul, who was the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire. Early Ottoman genealogies disputed this lineage, and either Suleyman Shah or Gündüz Alp could be Osman's grandfather and the father of ErtuÃÂrul. An Ottoman tomb initially in or near Qal'at Ja'bar has historically been associated with Suleyman Shah. He succeeded his father as bey in 1214 when he decided to lead the 50,000 strong tribe West in the face of Mongol invasion. After migrating to the North Caucasus, thousands of Kayis settled in Erzincan and Ahlat in 1214, while some of the other Kayi groups dispersed in Diyarbakir, Mardin, and Urfa.
Various sources linked Süleymanà Ââh to Osman Gazi and his father ErtuÃÂrul:
Family tree in à Âükrullah's ' <br />
<br> Family tree according to Oruç Bey's
<br /> Family tree in Hasan bin Mahmûd el-Bayâtî's Câm-ñ Cem-ÃÂyîn
<br /> Family tree in ÃÂà Âñkpaà Âazâde's '
<br> Family tree in Neà Ârî's '
<br> In chapter fourteenth of of ÃÂà Âñkpaà Âazâde, Osman I asserted that he had descended from Gökalp and Suleiman ibn Qutulmish the founder of Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate instead of "Süleymanà Ââh ibn Kaya Alp". Erhan Afyoncu claims that the identity of Süleyman à Âah in the Tomb of Suleyman Shah is unidentified. He also defends that the father of ErtuÃÂrul according to the recent investigations is Gündüz Alp.
In early 2015, during the Syrian Civil War, on the night of 21âÂÂ22 February 2015, a Turkish military convoy including tanks and other armored vehicles numbering about 100 entered Syria to evacuate the tomb's 40 guards and to relocate the tomb of Suleyman Shah.
The tomb is now temporarily located in Turkey-controlled territory 200 meters inside Syria, 22 km (14 mi) west of Ayn al-Arab and 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the Euphrates, less than 2 km (1.2 mi) southeast of the Turkish village of Esmesi that is in southernmost Birecik District.
The Turkish government has highlighted that the relocation is temporary, and that it does not constitute any change to the status of the tomb site.
Serdar Gökhan appeared as Süleyman à Âah in the Turkish TV series ', where he starred as a main character in the first season, and its sequel, ', where he made a cameo appearance in the thirteenth episode.