Who married Nevvare Hanım?
Mehmed VI married Nevvare Hanım . The age gap was 40 years, 3 months and 20 days.
Nevvare Hanım
Nevvare Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: نوارہ خانم; "young blessing" or "young child"; born Ayşe Çıhçı, after 1926 Nevvare Leyla Sönmezler; 4 May 1901 – 13 June 1992) was the fourth consort of Sultan Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire.
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Mehmed VI
Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Ottoman Turkish: محمد سادس, romanized: Meḥmed-i sâdis, or وحيد الدين, Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn; Turkish: VI. Mehmed or Vahideddin, also spelled as Vahidettin; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba (lit. 'Emperor-father') among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 until 1 November 1922, when the Ottoman Sultanate was abolished and replaced by the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923.
He acceded to the throne after the death of Mehmed V Reşad on 4 July 1918 as the 36th padishah and 115th Islamic Caliph. Mehmed VI's chaotic reign began with Turkey suffering defeat by the Allied Powers with the conclusion of World War I nearing. The subsequent Armistice of Mudros legitimized further Allied incursions into Turkish territory, resulting in an informal occupation of Istanbul and other parts of the empire. An initial process of reconciliation with Christian minorities over their massacres and deportations failed when the Greek and Armenian patriarchates renounced their flocks' status as Ottoman subjects, marking a definitive end of Ottomanism. During the Paris Peace Conference, Mehmed VI turned to Damat Ferid Pasha to outflank Greek territorial demands on Turkey diplomatically through Allied appeasement, but to no avail. Unionist elements within the military, discontent with the government's appeasement in the face of partition and the establishment of war crimes tribunals, established a nationalist resistance to resume war. Mehmed's most significant act as Sultan was dispatching Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) to reassert government control in Anatolia, which backfired when Mustafa Kemal emerged as the leader of the Turkish national movement against the Sultan's wishes.
With the Greek Occupation of Smyrna on 15 May 1919 galvanizing the Turkish nationalists and beginning the Turkish War of Independence. The Allies occupied Istanbul militarily on 16 March 1920, and pressured Sultan Mehmed VI to dissolve the nationalist dominated Chamber of Deputies and suspend the Constitution. When the Turkish nationalists stood against Allied designs for a partition of Anatolia, Kemal Pasha responded by establishing a provisional government known as the Grand National Assembly based in Ankara, which dominated the rest of Turkey, while the Sultan's unpopular government in Istanbul was propped up by the Allied powers and effectively impotent. A civil war erupted when Mehmed condemned the nationalist leaders as infidels and called for their execution, though the Ankara government claimed it was rescuing the Sultan-Caliph from manipulative foreigners and ministers. The Sultan's Istanbul government went on to sign the Treaty of Sèvres, a peace treaty which would have partitioned the empire, and left the remainder of the country without sovereignty.
With Ankara's victory in the independence war, the Sèvres Treaty was abandoned for the Treaty of Lausanne. On 1 November 1922, the Grand National Assembly voted to abolish the Sultanate and to depose Mehmed VI as Caliph and he subsequently fled the country. His cousin Abdul Mejid II was elected Caliph in his stead, though he too, and the entire Osmanoğlu family were soon exiled after the abolition of the Caliphate. On 29 October 1923, the Republic of Turkey was declared with Mustafa Kemal Pasha as its first president, ending the Ottoman monarchy. Mehmed VI died in exile in 1926 in San Remo, Italy, having never acknowledged his deposition.
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