Şehzade Mehmed Abid
Şehzade Mehmed Abid was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Saliha Naciye Hanım.Life
Şehzade Mehmed Abid was born in the Yıldız Palace on 17 September 1905. His mother was Saliha Naciye Hanım.
At the overthrew of her father in 1909, the Abid followed his parents into exile at Salonica. They were living in Alatini Mansion. A year after he returned to Istanbul and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace with his father. Abid was thirteen when his father, Abdul Hamid II died. He educated at the Galatasaray and Habibiya Colleges, Constantinople. In 1923 his mother also died, when he was eighteen.
When the Ottoman Empire was dissolved in 1924, the royal family went into exile. Abid wanted to settle in Egypt. However, King Fuad I did not allow the family to enter Egypt. He first went to Beirut, while his eldest brother Şehzade Mehmed Selim, settled in Jünye. Şehzade Abid later went to Nice. There he stayed with his sister Hamide Ayşe Sultan.
He later went to Paris and graduated from the Sorbonne Law School in 1936 and in the Faculty of Political Science in 1937. He also studied French Language and Literature from the Ecole Nationale des Langues Vivantes. Between 1940 and 1948 he lived in Toulouse, Nice, Madrid, Lisbon, Cairo, Alexandria and Tirana. He was also appointed Albanian Ambassador to France.
He died at Beirut on 8 December 1973 and was buried at Sultan Selim Mosque, Damascus.Marriages
He married two times:
