Sultan mehmed vi biography of mahatma

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1918 to 1922

"Mohamed VI" redirects here. For the Moroccan monarch, see Mohammed VI of Morocco.

Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Ottoman Turkish: محمد سادسMeḥmed-i sâdis or وحيد الدينVaḥîdü'd-Dîn; Turkish: VI.

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Mehmed or Vahdeddin/Vahideddin; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba (lit. 'Emperor-father') among the Osmanoğlu family,^[3] was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 until 1 November 1922, when the Ottoman sultanate was abolished and replaced by the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923.

The brother of Mehmed V Reşâd, he became heir to the throne in 1916, after the death of Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, as the eldest male member of the House of Osman. He acceded to the throne after the death of Mehmed V.^[4] He was girded with the Sword of Osman on 4 July 1918 as the 36th padishah and 115th Islamic Caliph.

Mehmed VI's reign