In this picturetaken before the exile, my father is with his mother, my grandmother, Her Highness Princess Şadiye
Their Highnesses Princesses Melike (at my father's right) and Emire on board the Normandie during WWII
My father playing with my sister and me
By the lookof the place, this must be Baden-Baden. Tante Lola stands beside my sister, who was from my mother's side of the family. In the background: my father's car
From right to left: His Imperial Highness Prince Burhaneddin Djem, his two half-brothers and their sons: Rudy Halouk Daus and Laurence Bahri Daus, John Djem Daus (son of Rudy Halouk Daus), Robert Daus (son of Laurence Bahri Daus), and Daniel Halouk Daus(son of Rudy Halouk Daus). The picture was taken during Regina's wedding in 1990. Regina is Laurence Bahri Daus's daughter. Regina married Peter Haberles.They have two children, Spencer and Ben. Robert married Lisa and has a brandnew son, Robby. Saddly, Uncle Bahri passed away in May 2008, shortly before my father. His loss is a tragedy. He was the kindest man I ever met. Uncle Rudy has a third son, Billy Daus, unfortunately not present on this picture
My cousin, His Highness Prince Yusuf Mecid Kefeli, and his wife Anne Kefeli standing around my father, in New York. Yusuf is the son of one my father's sisters, Her Imperial Highness Princess Nelufer (1912-1997). Nelufer lived in New York not too far away from my father's place, in Queens, where she lived with her husband, Joseph Chiernovsky. Until Yusuf retired he worked at Saclay, in Paris. My aunt Nelufer invited us to eat every weekend. Her favourite dish (or maybe Joseph’s favourite dish) was chicken with tomatoes. Yusuf taught me a lot about the Ottoman Dynasty - at least he tried since I was a teenager at the time and my mind wasotherwise preoccupied
My father with His Imperial Highness Prince Orhan Osmanoglu in Nice in 1989. At the time, Prince Orhan was Head of the Family
My father and His Imperial Highness Prince Osman Selaheddin Osmanoglu. My father had a lot of admiration for my cousin Osman and loved his numerous children – Their Imperial Highnesses Princess Ayse, Prince Murat and Prince Selim as well as Her HighnessPrincess Athena, their mother
His Imperial Highness Prince Burhaneddin Djem and his cousin Her Imperial Highness Princess Nejla. This picture was maybe taken in Paris, but I am not sure
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From left to right: Her Highness Princess Bilun, her brother, His Highness Prince Yavuz and his daughter, Princess Cynthia. At the far left, my father, His Imperial Highness Prince Burhaneddin Djem who hadn't seen his niece Bilun since 1924. They were and remained the best of friends. Bilun had invited my father to spend some time at her place in Lebanon. It was his last vacation
In this picture, Princess Nahide has taken Princess Cynthia's place. Nahide is Bilun'sdaughter. Both my father and I love them
My father and Her Imperial Highness Princess Mihrimah (1922 -2000). They had wonderful times together. Aunt Mirhimah often came to see my father and they went to restaurants, mostly Russian restaurants with loud music. They were the best of friends
My fatherwith Dogan and Refan Akad. Dogan and Refan are members of my grandmother’sbranch and are the kindest people. Here, the three of them are sitting in Downtown New York
My father and I went to meet Professor Doctor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the director of the Islamic Centre, in an area of Istanbul called Besiktas. The Professor was a very good friend of my father and he helped us get our Turkish passports, later on. I am forever grateful to him. He is one of the most erudite and kind person I have met
Thanks to Mrs. Kerime Senyucel’s work on the Ottoman Family, a large part of us who had never met or even heard about each other, got to finally meet in Istanbul, at the Dolmabahce Palace. She filmed us, interviewed us and now we know each other a bit more and see that, after all, there are many similarities between all of us. Thank you Kerime!
Simon Starosselsky is an Uncle of my mother. He was also a friend of my father’s. They were very fond of each other
Hélène and I are going out since February 1998. And, since August 1998, we have been visiting my father and, little by little, my father and she developed a deep friendship.These last years, since he began feeling less well, Hélène did everything she could to make his life easier and I sometimes thought of her as my father's nurse. She misses my father nearly as much as I do. During all the time we spent at the hospital at my father's bedside last October, surprisingly, nobody came to see my father except the two of us. And when Uncle Halouk phoned me to inform me that my father had passed away at 4 a.m., Hélène was just as shocked as I was. We still are. We will never get over my father's passing away
Their Highnesses Princesses Melike (at my father's right) and Emire on board the Normandie during WWII
My father playing with my sister and me
By the lookof the place, this must be Baden-Baden. Tante Lola stands beside my sister, who was from my mother's side of the family. In the background: my father's car
From right to left: His Imperial Highness Prince Burhaneddin Djem, his two half-brothers and their sons: Rudy Halouk Daus and Laurence Bahri Daus, John Djem Daus (son of Rudy Halouk Daus), Robert Daus (son of Laurence Bahri Daus), and Daniel Halouk Daus(son of Rudy Halouk Daus). The picture was taken during Regina's wedding in 1990. Regina is Laurence Bahri Daus's daughter. Regina married Peter Haberles.They have two children, Spencer and Ben. Robert married Lisa and has a brandnew son, Robby. Saddly, Uncle Bahri passed away in May 2008, shortly before my father. His loss is a tragedy. He was the kindest man I ever met. Uncle Rudy has a third son, Billy Daus, unfortunately not present on this picture
My cousin, His Highness Prince Yusuf Mecid Kefeli, and his wife Anne Kefeli standing around my father, in New York. Yusuf is the son of one my father's sisters, Her Imperial Highness Princess Nelufer (1912-1997). Nelufer lived in New York not too far away from my father's place, in Queens, where she lived with her husband, Joseph Chiernovsky. Until Yusuf retired he worked at Saclay, in Paris. My aunt Nelufer invited us to eat every weekend. Her favourite dish (or maybe Joseph’s favourite dish) was chicken with tomatoes. Yusuf taught me a lot about the Ottoman Dynasty - at least he tried since I was a teenager at the time and my mind wasotherwise preoccupied
My father with His Imperial Highness Prince Orhan Osmanoglu in Nice in 1989. At the time, Prince Orhan was Head of the Family
My father and His Imperial Highness Prince Osman Selaheddin Osmanoglu. My father had a lot of admiration for my cousin Osman and loved his numerous children – Their Imperial Highnesses Princess Ayse, Prince Murat and Prince Selim as well as Her HighnessPrincess Athena, their mother
His Imperial Highness Prince Burhaneddin Djem and his cousin Her Imperial Highness Princess Nejla. This picture was maybe taken in Paris, but I am not sure
From left to right: Her Highness Princess Bilun, her brother, His Highness Prince Yavuz and his daughter, Princess Cynthia. At the far left, my father, His Imperial Highness Prince Burhaneddin Djem who hadn't seen his niece Bilun since 1924. They were and remained the best of friends. Bilun had invited my father to spend some time at her place in Lebanon. It was his last vacation
In this picture, Princess Nahide has taken Princess Cynthia's place. Nahide is Bilun'sdaughter. Both my father and I love them
My father and Her Imperial Highness Princess Mihrimah (1922 -2000). They had wonderful times together. Aunt Mirhimah often came to see my father and they went to restaurants, mostly Russian restaurants with loud music. They were the best of friends
My fatherwith Dogan and Refan Akad. Dogan and Refan are members of my grandmother’sbranch and are the kindest people. Here, the three of them are sitting in Downtown New York
My father and I went to meet Professor Doctor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the director of the Islamic Centre, in an area of Istanbul called Besiktas. The Professor was a very good friend of my father and he helped us get our Turkish passports, later on. I am forever grateful to him. He is one of the most erudite and kind person I have met
Thanks to Mrs. Kerime Senyucel’s work on the Ottoman Family, a large part of us who had never met or even heard about each other, got to finally meet in Istanbul, at the Dolmabahce Palace. She filmed us, interviewed us and now we know each other a bit more and see that, after all, there are many similarities between all of us. Thank you Kerime!
Simon Starosselsky is an Uncle of my mother. He was also a friend of my father’s. They were very fond of each other
Hélène and I are going out since February 1998. And, since August 1998, we have been visiting my father and, little by little, my father and she developed a deep friendship.These last years, since he began feeling less well, Hélène did everything she could to make his life easier and I sometimes thought of her as my father's nurse. She misses my father nearly as much as I do. During all the time we spent at the hospital at my father's bedside last October, surprisingly, nobody came to see my father except the two of us. And when Uncle Halouk phoned me to inform me that my father had passed away at 4 a.m., Hélène was just as shocked as I was. We still are. We will never get over my father's passing away