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Wrong Statement[edit]

I'm sorry, I missed the Mehmeds, Prince Timur is the descendant of Mehmed VI ...

The problem is, that the son of Mehmed VI, (Prince Mehmed Ertogrul) lives in Cairo with a Turkish Woman in Nikah 'urfi marriage.

She was pregnant by him when he got a heart attack and dead, his son was born posthumously, Prince Mehmed Ertogrul was buried in Cairo.

Wrong Statement[edit]

He wasn't the 40th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he was the 36th. With respect, Deliogul 19:32, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating[edit]

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 23:44, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Succession Box[edit]

In the succession box at the bottom, for titles in pretense, shouldn't the successor of the title in pretense be listed instead of the fact that the Republic was declared? The fact that the Republic was declared would go into the middle as 'reason for succesion failure.' If anyone has any skills dealing with the succession box, please tell me if I'm correct, thanks. --Sephiroth9611 (talk) 01:40, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Marriage and issue[edit]

What does this even mean? The context seems to suggest 'offspring', but I'm a native English speaker and I have never heard that usage before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.226.217.201 (talk) 20:48, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Mehmed VI[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Mehmed VI's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "EB":

From Abdul Hamid I: Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Abdulhamid I". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
From Abdülmecid I: Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Abdulmecid I". Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
From Abdülaziz: Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Abdülaziz". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
From Abkhaz people: Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Abkhaz". Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
From Abdülmecid II: Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Abdümecid II". Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
From Abdul Hamid II: Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Abdulhamid II". Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 19:56, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of Mehmed VI[edit]

I wonder, what is your reasonable ground? On one side, a real portrait photo, on the other side an painting? Please before making any changes, you can contact the negotiation. Maurice07 (talk) 11:16, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

File:Sébah & Joaillier - Sultan Mehmed VI.jpg to appear as POTD[edit]

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Picture of the day

Mehmed VI (1861–1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was girded with the Sword of Osman in June 1918, with his reign beginning the following month after his brother's death. Following the Ottoman defeat in World War I, Mehmed VI was tasked with reconciliation with the Allies. However, his settlements were denounced by Turkish nationalists, and in 1922 the Grand National Assembly of Turkey abolished the sultanate. Mehmed VI spent the rest of his life in exile.Photo: Sébah & Joaillier; restoration: Adam Cuerden

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A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion[edit]

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Early life[edit]

It says during his brother's reign "he lived. " Yes of course he did but is this intended to show where he lived or in what style or who with?. Perhaps someone could help.Spinney Hill (talk) 08:51, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Exile and Death.[edit]

Can anyone improve on the sentence about what his daughter did. Did she pay for the transport of the body to Syria and the funeral? Foreclosure is to do with mortgages. I know of no other meaning or context. No mortgage has been mentioned in the article.Spinney Hill (talk) 08:11, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Character[edit]

I can't make sense of this paragraph apart from the last sentence. The paragraph seems to have been translated from Turkish but not translated well. This could also be the problem with "exile and death."Spinney Hill (talk) 08:14, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Who is "Harington"?[edit]

On the section "Exile and death," the page reads:

Harington himself took the last Ottoman ruler from Yıldız Palace.

The page refers to Harington as if we had already established who he was (and his relation to Mehmed), but there is no other mention of Harington in the entire article. The source it cites is in Turkish, and I could only read it by translating it through Google, but it seems like whoever made this edit just transcribed part of the source without proofreading it. The source in question doesn't give much more information on Harington, referring to him as "General Harington." I assume they are talking about Charles Harington Harington, a British general who was active in Turkey during this time, but, as my knowledge on Turkish history is very shallow, I have no way of knowing for sure, so I don't want to edit the page without really knowing if what I'm saying is correct. Can someone with more knowledge than me check the information? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Felz1 (talk • contribs) 23:10, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Found a possible public domain image[edit]

From Servet-i Funun https://archives.saltresearch.org/bitstream/123456789/129372/524/PFSIF9180711A341%20(1918-07-11).jpg

I wonder if this pic is public domain and/or is eligible for the Commons WhisperToMe (talk) 01:52, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seems the publication extensively covered Mehmed VI's ascendancy: https://archives.saltresearch.org/bitstream/123456789/129372/544/PFSIF9180718A373%20(1918-07-18).jpg and https://archives.saltresearch.org/bitstream/123456789/129372/540/PFSIF9180711B001.jpg, https://archives.saltresearch.org/bitstream/123456789/129372/541/PFSIF9180711B002.jpg, https://archives.saltresearch.org/bitstream/123456789/129372/542/PFSIF9180711B003.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 02:00, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Intro[edit]

I'm concerned about the following statement:

       Mehmed VI left for a European exile after also being declared persona non grata.

Until recently this said he left for Malta. If that is true there wasn't any reason to change it. If It was wrong the present version is inadequate as he was ruler of Turkey with a capital at Constantinople and a country that was partly in Europe. That city was and is in Europe and Europe is a big place. We need to be more specific. If he didn't. go to Malta (also in Europe) did he go to Britain or Norway or Switzerland or any of the other European countries. Presumably if he was persona non grata in Turkey internal exile in European Turkey was not a possibility. Spinney Hill (talk) 15:19, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Spinney Hill (talk) 00:30, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]