Mehmed V information

Names
	Mehmed Han bin Abdulmejid

Mehmed V
Mehmed V
Ottoman Caliph; Amir al-Mu'minin; Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
	Photograph by Carl Pietzner, June 1915
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Padishah)
Reign	27 April 1909 – 3 July 1918
Sword girding	10 May 1909
Predecessor	Abdul Hamid II
Successor	Mehmed VI
Grand Viziers	See list Ahmet Tevfik Pasha; Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha; Ibrahim Hakki Pasha; Mehmed Said Pasha; Ahmed Muhtar Pasha; Mehmed Kâmil Pasha; Mahmud Shevket Pasha; Said Halim Pasha; Mehmed Talat Pasha;
Born	2 November 1844; Old Çırağan Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire; (present-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	3 July 1918 (aged 73); Yıldız Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Tomb of Sultan Mehmed V Reşad, Eyüp, Istanbul
Consorts	Kamures Kadın; Dürriaden Kadın; Mihrengiz Kadın; Nazperver Kadın; Dilfirib Kadın;
Issue	Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin; Şehzade Mahmud Necmeddin; Şehzade Ömer Hilmi; Refia Sultan;
Names
Names
	Mehmed Han bin Abdulmejid
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Abdulmejid I
Mother	Gülcemal Kadın (biological mother); Servetseza Kadın (adoptive mother)
Religion	Sunni Islam;
Tughra

Mehmed V Reşâd (Ottoman Turkish: محمد خامس, romanized: Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; Turkish: V. Mehmed or Mehmed Reşad; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch, interfering little when it came to government affairs, though the constitution was held with little regard by his ministries. The first half of his reign was marked by contentious politicking between factions of the Young Turks, and the second half by war and domination of the Committee of Union and Progress and the Three Pashas.

Reşad was the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I.^[2] He succeeded his half-brother Abdul Hamid II after the 31 March Incident. Coming to power in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt, his nine-year reign featured three coups d'etat, four wars, and numerous uprisings. The Italo-Turkish War saw the cession of the Empire's North African territories and the Dodecanese Islands, including Rhodes, during which the CUP was forced out of power by the military. This was followed up by the traumatic loss of almost all of the Empire's European territories west of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the First Balkan War, and the return of a now radicalized CUP rule in another coup. Eastern Thrace was retaken in the Second Balkan War.

The Ottomans entered World War I in November 1914 during which Mehmed declared jihad against the Allies. While Ottoman forces successfully fended off an Allied invasion at Gallipoli, defeat loomed on the Caucasian and Mesopotamian fronts. Military collapse in the field and a revolt by the Empire's Arab subjects spelled impending disaster, though Mehmed died before Ottoman surrender, and he was succeeded by Mehmed VI.^[3]

^ "Asian, Ceramics & Works of Art: Antiquities, Islamic & Pre-Columbian Art". C.G. Sloan & Company. 2001.
^ Abdulmecid, Coskun Cakir, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, ed. Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters, (Infobase Publishing, 2009), 9.
^ "Rusya Fransa ve İngiltere devletleriyle hal-i harb ilanı hakkında irade-i seniyye [Imperial Decree Concerning the Declaration of a State of War with the States of Russia, France, and the United Kingdom], Nov. 11, 1914 (29 Teşrin-i Evvel 1330), Takvim-i Vekayi, Nov. 12, 1914 (30 Teşrin-i Evvel 1330)" (PDF). Library of Congress.

[1] "Asian, Ceramics & Works of Art: Antiquities, Islamic & Pre-Columbian Art". C.G. Sloan & Company. 2001.

[2] Abdulmecid, Coskun Cakir, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, ed. Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters, (Infobase Publishing, 2009), 9.

[3] "Rusya Fransa ve İngiltere devletleriyle hal-i harb ilanı hakkında irade-i seniyye [Imperial Decree Concerning the Declaration of a State of War with the States of Russia, France, and the United Kingdom], Nov. 11, 1914 (29 Teşrin-i Evvel 1330), Takvim-i Vekayi, Nov. 12, 1914 (30 Teşrin-i Evvel 1330)" (PDF). Library of Congress.

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