Mehmed V
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Mehmed V Reşâd was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch. He had little influence over government affairs and his ministries show
Formal portrait, 1915
Princes Reşad, Murad, and Kemaleddin
Padişah Reşad's Cülûs ceremony
Sultan Mehmed V, Enver Pasha, Grand Vizier Talât Pasha, and future Sultan Mehmed VI, hosting Wilhelm II in Constantinople during World War I.
Abdülmecid I
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Abdülmecid I was the 31st sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839.
Mehmed V
…politics, and the second half by war and domination of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the Three Pashas. Reşad was the son of Sultan Abdülmecid I. He succeeded his half-brother Abdul Hamid II after the 31 March Incident. Coming to power in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt, his nine-year…
Portrait by Konstantin Cretius
Portrait of Abdülmecid I by David Wilkie, 1840.
A painting of Abdulmejid at the Pera Museum in Istanbul (oil on canvas, 1850s).
Sultan Abdülmecid (left) with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Emperor Napoleon III of France