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MURAD V

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MURAD V . (1840-1904), eldest son of See also:Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, was See also:born on the 21st of See also:September 1840. On the See also:accession of his See also:uncle Abd-ul-Aziz, See also:Prince Mahommed Murad See also:Effendi—as he was then called—was deprived of all See also:share in public affairs and imprisoned, owing to his opposition to the sultan's See also:plan for altering the See also:order of See also:succession. On the deposition of Abd-ul-Aziz on the 3oth of May 1876, Murad was haled from his See also:prison by a See also:mob of softas and soldiers of the " See also:Young See also:Turkey " party under See also:Suleiman See also:Pasha, and proclaimed " See also:emperor by the See also:grace of See also:God and the will of the See also:people." Three months later, however, his See also:health, undermined by his See also:long confinement, gave way; and on the 31st of See also:August he was deposed to make See also:room for his younger See also:brother, Abd-ul-Hamid II. He was kept in confinement in the Cheragan See also:palace till his See also:death on the 29th of August 1904. See See also:Keratry, Mourad V., prince, sultan, prisonnier d'etat 1840-1876 (See also:Paris, 1878); Djemaleddin See also:Bey, Sultan Murad V., the See also:Turkish See also:Dynasty See also:Mystery, 1876-1895 (See also:London, 1895).

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