Father Halil Bey Died 1934, Istanbul, Turkey Parents Halil Sami Bey, Halil Bey | Religion Islam Spouse Murad V Grandparent Murad I | |
House Ottoman dynasty (by marriage) Similar Murad V, Şevkefza Kadın, Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, Fehime Sultan, Halil Sami Bey | ||
Remişnaz Hanımefendi (1864–1934, birth name Fehime, other names Rems-şinaz, Remzşinas) was the wife of Murad V, Deposed Ottoman Sultan.
Biography
Remişnaz was born in 1864 in North Caucasus to a Circassian noble family. Born as Fehime, she was daughter of a Bzhedug noble, Hasan Bey. During the 1864–67 ethnic cleansing of Circassians, her family emigrated from Caucasus to Istanbul, where Fehime was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. First, she was given to serve the head of the court and was renamed Remişnaz. However, soon Murad V took notice of Remişnaz and they married in the Çırağan Palace, the Sultan's residence at the time.
After Murad's death in 1904 she moved to Bursa, where she was living in the palace of her stepdaughter Fatma Sultan. Remişnaz returned to Istanbul. After the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate by the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey in 1924, the imperial family went into exile in Nice, France. As but an adjunct member of the Imperial family, Remişnaz was not exiled, and so remained in Turkey. She adopted the surname "Topçu" after the 1934 Surname Law, which required all Turkish citizens to adopt a surname. She died in 1934 at Istanbul, twenty years after her return from Bursa.