Mehmed VI

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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 Vahdettin; 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. Vahdettin was a son of Sultan Abdul Mejid I and viewed as unlikely to become Sultan because of his distant rank in the Ottoman line of succession. He enjoyed a comfortable princedom under the reign of his half-brother Abdul Hamid II, but entered the spotlight in 1916 when he became Crown Prince. He acceded to the throne after the death of Mehmed V Reşad on 4 July 1918 as the 36th padishah and 115th Islamic Caliph, taking Mehmed VI as his regal name. Mehmed VI's chaotic reign began with Turkey suffering...

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