Mehmed V: Reign in World War

Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid

The 35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from April 27, 1909, to July 3, 1918. He was the son of Abdülmecid I and Gülcemal Kadın. During the reign of his elder brother Abdülhamid II, he was kept under strict surveillance in the palace as the heir to the throne. He ascended the throne following his brother's deposal after the 31st March Incident in 1909. Although he ruled as a constitutional monarch, actual political power was held by the Committee of Union and Progress, particularly the Three Pashas (Talat, Enver, and Cemal) from 1913 onward. In World War I, he declared a holy war (jihad) against the Allied Powers in his capacity as the Ottoman Caliph. He was also interested in poetry, Persian literature, and the teachings of the Mevlevi Order.

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Year	Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid
1844	Birth of Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid (Period: November 2, 1844, Location: Istanbul, Turkey (then Constantinople, Çırağan Palace))
1909	Visit to Bursa (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1909, Location: Ottoman Empire, Bursa) 31 March Incident (Age: 64 years old, Period: April 13, 1909 (March 31 in the Ottoman calendar), Location: Ottoman capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul)) Accession of Mehmed V (Age: 64 years old, Period: April 27, 1909, Location: Ottoman capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul)) Girding of the Sword of Osman (Age: 64 years old, Period: May 10, 1909, Location: Istanbul, Eyüp Sultan Mosque Complex) Oath of Accession in the Ottoman Parliament (Age: 64 years old, Period: May 20, 1909, Location: Constantinople (modern Istanbul))
1910	Visit to Edirne (Age: 65 years old, Period: 1910, Location: Ottoman Empire, Edirne)
1911	Italo-Turkish War (Age: 66 years old, Period: September 29, 1911 – October 18, 1912, Location: Ottoman Tripolitania (modern Libya), Cyrenaica, Aegean Sea, Dodecanese Islands) Tour of Rumelia (Age: 66 years old, Period: June 5–26, 1911, Location: Çanakkale, Thessaloniki, Skopje, Pristina, Bitola, etc. in the Balkan Peninsula)
1912	First Balkan War (Age: 67 years old, Period: October 1912 – May 1913, Location: Balkan Peninsula, Ottoman Macedonia, Thrace, Albania, etc.)
1913	Bab-i Ali Raid (Age: 68 years old, Period: January 23, 1913, Location: Ottoman capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul), Sublime Porte) Second Balkan War (Age: 68 years old, Period: June – August 1913, Location: Balkan Peninsula, particularly Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Eastern Thrace)
1914	World War I (Age: 69 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions (Gallipoli, Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai, Palestine, Arabia, etc.)) Entry into World War I and Declaration of Jihad (Age: 70 years old, Period: November 11–14, 1914, Location: Ottoman capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul))
1915	Armenian Genocide (Age: 70 years old, Period: World War I period, centered around 1915–1917, Location: Ottoman Eastern Anatolia, Syria, Mesopotamia, etc.)
1916	Arab Revolt (Age: 71 years old, Period: June 1916 – 1918, Location: Ottoman Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula, Aqaba, surroundings of Damascus, etc.)
1917	Visit of German Emperor Wilhelm II to Istanbul (Age: 72 years old, Period: October 15, 1917, Location: Ottoman capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul))
1918	Visit of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Charles I (Age: 73 years old, Period: May 1918, Location: Ottoman capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul)) Death of Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid (Age: 73 years old, Period: July 3, 1918. Died at Yıldız Palace in Istanbul at the age of 73.) Death of Mehmed V and Accession of Successor (Age: 73 years old, Period: July 3–4, 1918, Location: Istanbul, Yıldız Palace)
Unknown	Marriage (Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid, Kamures Kadın, Period: Princehood of Mehmed V (specific dates unconfirmed), Location: Unknown (believed to be a court marriage, but specific location unconfirmed)) Marriage (Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid, Dürriyaden Kadın, Period: Princehood of Mehmed V (specific dates unconfirmed), Location: Unknown (specific location unconfirmed)) Marriage (Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid, Mihrengiz Kadın, Period: Princehood of Mehmed V (specific dates unconfirmed), Location: Unknown (specific location unconfirmed)) Marriage (Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid, Nazperver Kadın, Period: Princehood of Mehmed V (specific dates unconfirmed), Location: Unknown (specific location unconfirmed)) Marriage (Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid, Dilfirib Kadın, Period: Princehood of Mehmed V (specific dates unconfirmed), Location: Unknown (specific location unconfirmed))

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Ottoman Empire	Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid Mehmed Vahdeddin Han bin Abdülmecid İsmail Enver Mehmed Talat Ahmet Cemal Mustafa Kemal Mustafa İsmet Mustafa Fevzi
Palestinian national movement	Amin al-Husayni Musa al-Husayni Raghib al-Nashashibi Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Chaim Weizmann David Ben-Gurion Zeev Jabotinsky Golda Meir Vladimir Jabotinsky Moshe Sharett

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