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PRINCE ERTUGRUL OSMAN |
Ertugrul Osman was a descendant of Osman I. Osman I established a kingdom in 1299 which eventually grew into the huge Ottoman Empire. It controlled parts of Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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| DOLMABAHCE PALACE |
The Ottoman Empire lasted from 1300
till 1922. When on 29 October 1923 Turkey was declared a Republic. The Ottoman
Empire span right across three continents from 16th - 17thcentury controlling
most South-eastern Europe, West Asia and North Africa.
The Ottoman Empire were made up of 29
provinces and many vassal states, some were then included into the empire. Some
distance overseas lands declared allegiance to the Ottoman Sultan and Caliph; a
declaration by the Sultan of Aceh in 1565; a temporary acquisition of islands
in the Atlantic Ocean, one of them was Lanzarode 1585.
The Empire was at the centre between
Eastern and Western world for six centuries with Constantinople (Istanbul) as
the capital. The Ottoman Empire an Islam is a successor to the East Roman
(Byzantine) Empire. It was the longest Muslin Empire 1300-1922.
Osman would have been the next Sultan
but Turkey proclaimed a republic in 1923. Therefore, the royal family was
expelled and Ertugrul Osman who was at the school in Vienna did not return to
Turkey till he was invited by the government in 1992.
He visited the Dolmabahce palace by
the Bosphorus River where he lived and played as a child. To avoid drawing
attention to himself he joined a group of tourist.
For more than 60 years he lived in a
rent-controlled apartment in New York. Osman was asked many times about what
might have been and what was and whether he thinks that the empire will be
restored. He always said - no.
Ertugrul Osman died when he visited
Istanbul on 23 September 2009 aged 97. His wife was with him when he died.
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