FAMOUS OTTOMAN WOMEN - NECDET SAKAOĞLU
The Ottoman Dynasty had 36 Sultans and the last Caliph. These men had mothers, wives, daughters; who led a life behind the closed doors of the Harem, a totally different life. It is true that they spent their time in palaces, imperial kiosks and seaside mansions, wearing silk dresses and jewels like pearls, emeralds, diamonds and rubies. It is also true that money poured in from the fiefs conferred on the royal women, referred to as paşmaklık, to allow them the freedom of buying whatever they fancied. But it should not be assumed that fate was kind to all of them and that they all lived fairy tale lives.
How many of the thousands of women that entered through the gates of the palaces as concubines (slaves), had the chance of being in the Harem as a Sultan's wife and attaining the ranks of haseki, kadınefendi or ikbal? Some of them had been lucky enough like Nurubanu and Şevkefza to see their sons be enthroned, and enjoy being a Mother Sultan, while others like Kösem Mahpeyker who witnessed two of her sons and a grandson ascend to the Ottoman throne and carried the title of Mother Sultan for long years, only to be strangled with a curtain cord and have her earnings torn from her ears after she was dead. Or like Aişe Sineperver, the Mother Sultan Mustafa IV, who spent her years at the Old Palace called the Palace of Tears, which was reserved for the widows of the Harem.
There have been Sultans' wives such as Sultan Hurrem who captivated the Sultans by writing them poems to describe their love such as "Oh Eastern breeze, tell my Sultan that I am wretched / As a nightingale without a rose" and there were Sultans like Sultan Abdulhamid I who forgot that he was the Sultan and wrote to a woman in his harem love letters like "Kindly come see your slave and make him happy, My Ruhşan, Hamid would give his life”.
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