Dündar Ali Osman

Dündar Ali Osman (, ; born 30 December 1930), also known as Dündar Ali Osman Osmanoğlu, with a surname as required by the Republic of Turkey, or known by the Ottoman imperial name as Şehzade (Prince) Dündar Ali Osman Osmanoğlu Efendi, is the 45th Head of the House of Osman, which ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 until the abolition of the Sultanate in 1922. Had the Ottoman Empire remained extant in the modern world, he would be titled as Sultan Dündar I, Sultan Ali II or Sultan Osman VI.

Personal life
Osmanoğlu was born on 30 December 1930 at Damascus in present-day Syria. He is a great-grandson of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. His grandfather was Mehmed Selim and his father was Mehmed Abdülkerim. His only brother, Harun was born in 1932. Osmanoğlu was married to Yüsra Hanım and is childless. She died in July 2017.

Life
In 1974, the Ottoman family was allowed to return to Turkey. However, Osmanoğlu refused to migrate and stayed at Damascus even though most of the family members returned to Istanbul.

The Syrian Civil War broke in 2011 and media reports emerged in 2013 that Osmanoğlu was stranded in Syria. In August 2017, he was evacuated on the order of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey. Osmanoğlu was initially evacuated to Beirut in Lebanon. Later, he moved to Istanbul.

Ancestry

See also
 Line of succession to the former Ottoman throne

References 

Category:1930 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Damascus
Category:Ottoman dynasty
Category:Pretenders to the Ottoman throne