Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin (6 August 1861 – 29 April 1915) was the only son of Sultan Mehmed Murad V, 33rd Sovereign of the House of Osman, and his second wife Reftarıdil Kadın. He educated privately and became 3rd Velihad from 13 August 1909 and Major-General of the Imperial Ottoman Army. He received the Collar of the Hanedan-ı-Ali-Osman and the Nişan-ı-Ali-Imtiyaz.
Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin spent most of his life in enforced confinement in Çırağan Palace, Ortaköy in İstanbul. The Palace served as an enforced residence to his father Sultan Murad V, who had been deposed in 1876 and replaced by his brother, Sultan Abdülhamid II. The restrictions imposed on the former Sultan extended to his entire family, and were not lifted until his death in 1904. During this time Prince (Şehzade) Mehmed Selaheddin Efendi wrote a diary which give an account of the daily life of the imprisoned members of Sultan Murad V's immediate family and their retinue.
He died at the age of 53 at Feneryolu Palace, Üsküdar on 29 April 1915 and was buried in Şehzade Kemaleddin Mausoleum, Yahya Efendi.
Mehmed Selaheddin married six times:
Dilaru Hanım (Caucasus, c. 1862 – Malta Köşkü, Yıldız Palace, 19 June 1880), married at Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace, and had:
A daughter lived up to four days.
Zatıgül Hanım (alias Tevhide; Batumi, Caucasus, c. 1864 – Çırağan Palace, Ortaköy, 8 March 1896), married at Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace in 1879, and had:
Şehzade Mehmed Livaeddin (Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace, 25 June 1880 – Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace, 30 July 1882).
Celile Sultan (Çırağan Palace, Ortaköy, 3 February 1882 – Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace 24 November 1899, buried in Yahya Efendi Cemetery).
Rükiye Sultan (Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace, 30 May 1885 – Istanbul, 16 June 1971, buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery) married at Göztepe, Istanbul, in 1910, Sharif Damat Mehmed Abdülmecid Haydar Bey, 1889 – Istanbul, 23 November 1965), sometime Jordanian Ambassador to London and Ankara, eldest son of Ali Haidar Pasha, the last Emir and Grand Sharif of Mecca, by his first wife Sabiha Hanım, with issue, adopted.
Şehzade Mehmed (died Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace 23 March 1889, buried Yahya Efendi Cemetery).
Emine Atiye Sultan (Çırağan Palace, Ortaköy, 3 January 1892 – Istanbul, 10 October 1978, buried in Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum) Married at Constantinople, Erenköy Palace, 21 September 1914 to Damat Osman Hami Bey (Bebek, Istanbul, 29 May 1890 – Istanbul, 2 December 1982, buried in Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum), son of Osman Ferid Pasha, sometime Private Sec. and Vizier, by his wife Fahire Hanım.
Naziknaz Hanım (Kars, Caucasus c. 1865 – Nice, France, 17 February 1928), married at Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace in 1880, and had:
Behiye Sultan (Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace), 21 August 1881 – Maadi, Cairo, 5 March 1948, buried in Cairo) married at Constantinople, Ortaköy, Ortaköy Palace, on 17 February 1910 to Major General Damat Hafiz Hakki Pasha (Edirne, 24 April 1878 – Erzurum, 12 February 1915), with issue, possible a stepdaughter.
Şehzade Ahmed Nihad, 38th Head of the Imperial House of Osman
Adile Sultan (Constantinople, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace, 7 February 1887 – Paris, 6 December 1973, buried in Bobigny, Parism) married firstly at Göztepe Palace on 15 May 1910 and divorced at Erenköy, 8 November 1913, Captain Damad Faik Bey (born 1885), Ottoman Cavalry, son of Field Marshal Arif Paşa, married secondly at Göztepe Palace, on 3 April 1914, Damad Selaheddin Ali Bey (1885 – Göztepe Palace, 26 December 1918), son of Moralı Mehmed Ali Bey, by his wife, Aliye Hanım, daughter of Ahmed Celaleddin Pasha. She had issue by her second husband:
Nilüfer Hanımsultan (Göztepe Palace, 4 January 1916 – Paris, 12 June 1989, buried in Bobigny Cemetery, Paris) married firstly at the Hilafet Palace, Nice, France on 12 November 1931 and divorced on 20 October 1952, General Nawab Muazzam Jah, Şejaat Ali Han Bahadur, KCIE (Eden Gardens, Hyderabad, 21 December 1907), second son of General Mir Osman Ali Han Bahadur by his chief wife, Dulhan Begum Sahiba, daughter of Nawab Jahangir Jung Bahadur, married secondly at Paris, 21 February 1963, Edward Julius Pope (died 1997). She died without having had issue.
Gülter Hanım (Tiflis, Georgia, c. 1871 – Çırağan Palace, Ortaköy in 1886, buried in Yahya Efendi), married at Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace 10 December 1886, daughter of Halil Bey Tarkanişvili and had:
Safiye Sultan (Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace, 20 May 1887 – Feneryolu Palace, Kadıköy, 20 February 1911), unmarried and without issue.
Jalefer Hanım (Kars, Caucasus c. 1876 – Ortaköy, 7 April 1937), married at Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace in 1891, and had:
Şehzade Osman Fuad, 39th Head of the Imperial House of Osman.
Dilberistan Hanım (née Cemile, 1880 – Istanbul, c. 1955), married at Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace in 1895, niece of HIM Empress Reftarıdil Kadın, and had:
Şehzade Mehmed Nejad (died Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace 3 March 1896).
Şehzade Mehmed Namik (Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace, 24 June 1898 – Istanbul, Ortaköy, Çırağan Palace, 18 August 1899).
Showing the line of descent from the founder of the Ottoman dynasty to present day through the male descendants of Sultan Murad V
