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10 Facts About Fevziye Sultan

1.

Fevziye Sultan was born on 28 October 1928 in Paris, France.

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Fevziye Sultan was the last children of her father and the only one of her mother.

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Fevziye Sultan lived for some time with Princess Wijdan, wife of Prince Ibrahim Hilmi, son of Khedive Isma'il Pasha of Egypt.

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In 1949 or 1951, Fevziye Sultan married the Air Force officer Muhammad Hussein Khayri Bey, the son of Kadria Hussein, an Egyptian princess and Mahmud Khayri Pasha.

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Fevziye Sultan studied journalism and sociology at Sorbonne University, and received a degree in spontaneous translation in English and French from the same university.

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Fevziye Sultan worked as an educational planner for seven years and as a communications specialist for another seven years.

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Fevziye Sultan worked on an international program on the restoration of Byzantine monuments in Istanbul.

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Fevziye Sultan died at the age of eighty-five on 9 April 2014 in Paris, France.

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Fevziye Sultan's funeral was held in the Grande Mosquee de Paris and was attended by her relatives in France and Switzerland, along with Turkey's Parist Embassy Undersecretary Ali Onaner.

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Fevziye Sultan was buried in Muslim Cemetery in Thais, Val-de-Marne, France.