About Şehzade Osman Fuad
Şehzade Osman Fuad Efendi (Ottoman Turkish:, عثمان فواد also Osman Füad Osmanoğlu, 25 February 1895 – 22 May 1973) was an Ottoman prince, a son of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, and grandson of Sultan Murad V, who reigned briefly in 1876. He was the 39th head of the Imperial House of Osman from 1954 to 1973. == Early life == Osman Fuad was born on 25 February 1895 in the Çırağan Palace. His father was Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, son of Sultan Murad V and Reftarıdil Kadın, and his mother was Jalefer Hanım. He spent his early childhood confined in the Çırağan Palace. The palace served as an enforced residence for his grandfather Sultan Murad, who had been deposed in 1876, and replaced by his brother, Abdul Hamid II. The restrictions imposed on the former sultan extended to his entire family, and were not lifted until his death in 1904. On the death of his grandfather, Fuad left this life of confinement and for a few years lived in his father's villa in Feneryolu, before returning to the Çırağan Palace to live with his step-grandmother Şayan Kadın, the third wife of Sultan Murad. Between 1911 and 1913, he served as the president of Fenerbahçe S.K. == Career == === Early career and education === In 1911, aged sixteen, he went to Tripolitania voluntarily to fight in the Italo-Turkish War. He participated in the Sirenek Operation, where he met Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Upon his return, he was enrolled in the Ottoman Military College.
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