Fatma Nazlı Hanım
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Fatma Nazlı Hanım was the wife of Süleyman Faik Paşa, a member of the notables of Batum and long-serving Commander of the Trabzon Province Gendarmerie Regiment. Süleyman Faik Paşa was an Ottoman soldier of Caucasian origin belonging to the Şahinbaşoğlu/Lordkipanidze family; he was counted among the leading figures of Batum, received treatment in Istanbul in his final years, and died in 1908.
Fatma Nazlı Hanım’s place within the family becomes clearer through her children. Among her sons were Alaybeyi Ömer Bey, Commander of the Lazistan Sanjak Gendarmerie Battalion; İsmail Fevzi Paşa, retired from the governorship of Denizli sanjak; the jurist Eyüp Sabri Bey; and Ahmed Avni Paşa, chief aide-de-camp of Sultan Vahdeddin and also Minister of the Navy. This family line gained strong representation among the military and civil bureaucratic circles of Caucasian origin in the late Ottoman period.
Fatma Nazlı Hanım died shortly after her husband, on the Feast of Dhu al-Hijja, and was buried in the family burial plot in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery.
Epitaph
He is the Eternal. Beside this eternal resting place, clothed in black earth and awaiting Allah’s mercy, lies the silent place of a pure-natured woman who yearned to join her husband. Let us all wish happiness in the hereafter for these two bodies, reunited even in their graves. "Every living thing on earth is mortal; only the essence of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor, endures." (Rahman 26-27)
A Fatiha for the soul of Fatma Nazlı Hanım, wife of the late Süleyman Fâik Paşa, who served for a long time as Commander of the Trabzon Gendarmerie. January 1908, on the feast day.
A Fatiha for his/her soul