Ertuğrul Osman V

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His Imperial Highness Prince Ertuğrul Osman V (Full name: Devletli Necabetli Ertuğrul Osman Efendi Hazretleri) (born August 18, 1912) is the 43rd Head of the Imperial House of Osman, which ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1923, after which point its center of activity became the modern republic of Turkey.

In 1924, while studying in Vienna, Austria, he received news that all members of the Sultan's family were to be exiled. He did not return to his native Turkey until the 1990s, when the Government of Turkey agreed to grant him Turkish citizenship. He has lived in the United States since the 1940s, and currently resides in Manhattan. He became the 43rd Head of the Imperial House of Osmanli in 1994.

Born at Yıldız Palace, İstanbul, he is the younger son of Captain H.I.H. Prince Muhammed Burhanettin Efendi, by his second wife, 'Aliye Melik Nazlıyar Hanım Efendi, daughter of Huseyin Bey, educated at Theresianum Academy, Vienna, and École des Sciences Politiques, Paris. He is also the grandson of Sultan Abdul-Hamid Khan II Ghazi, 34th Sovereign of the Imperial House of Osman. His wife, Mrs. Zeynep Tarzi, is the daughter of Abdulfettah Tarzi, nephew of the former King of Afghanistan, Amanullah Khan, and of Dr. Pakize Tarzi, a pioneering Turkish gynecologist from a deep-seated Ottoman family.

Preceded by: Mehmed VII Orhan

Head of House of Osman 1994-present

Succeeded by: Incumbent

[edit] External links

• Article on Ertugrul Osman in The New York Times