Atike Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)

Burnaz Atike Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عاتکه سلطان‎) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed I.

Atike Sultan
The tomb of Atike Sultan is located inside the Ibrahim I Mausoleum at Hagia Sophia Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.
Born	1613 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	after 1672[1] Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Ibrahim I Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque
Spouse	Koca Kenan Pasha Doğancı Yusuf Pasha
Full name Burnaz Atike Sultan[2]
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Ahmed I
Religion	Sunni Islam

Life

Atike Sultan married firstly the son of Etmekçizade Ahmed Pasha (died 1618), most probably in 1618. Upon the death of her husband, she was married to Koca Kenan Pasha[3][4] in 1633. After he in turn died in 1652, she was married to Doğancı Yusuf Pasha that same year.[5][1]

Turhan Sultan, wife of Sultan Ibrahim, and the mother of Sultan Mehmed IV, who had been a gift of Kör Süleyman Pasha to Valide Kösem Sultan, had been trained by Atike Sultan.[6]

Atike Sultan is buried in the mausoleum of her brother, Sultan Ibrahim in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.[5][7]

In popular culture

In the Turkish TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, Atike Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Ece Çeşmioğlu.[8]

See also

• List of Ottoman Princesses

References

1. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 322.
2. Ayvansarayı̂, Hafız Hüseyin; Sâtı, Ali; Besîm, Süleyman (2001). Hadı̂katü'l-cevâmiʻ: İstanbul câmileri ve diğer dnı̂-sivil miʻmârı̂ yapılar. İşaret. p. 10. ISBN 978-9-753-50118-7.
3. Tezcan, Baki (November 2001). Searching for Osman: A reassessment of the deposition of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618-1622). pp. 334 n. 58.
4. Çelebi, Evliya; Temelkuran, Tevfik; Aktaş, Necati; Çevik, Münim (1976). Evliya Çelebi seyahatnamesi, Volumes 3-4. Üçdal Neşriyat. p. 968.
5. Uluçay 2011, p. 84.
6. Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. pp. 236. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5.
7. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 323.
8. Muhtesem Yüzyil: Kösem (2015–2017), retrieved 2019-02-07

Sources

• Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
• Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.