Mehmed V

35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)

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Lived 1844–1918, aged 74Turkey

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Era
1844–1918
Aged 74

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People connected to Mehmed V

FatherAbdulmejid I

SiblingAbdul Hamid II

SiblingMehmed VI

SiblingMurad V

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Updated 2026-05-29

Ottoman sultan who spent a decade presiding over constitutional monarchy in name only, while the Committee of Union and Progress and the Three Pashas actually ran things. Reigned 1909–1918 through Balkan wars and the empire's final collapse.

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Mehmed V Reşâd was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch. He had little influence over government affairs and his ministries showed little regard for the Ottoman constitution. The first half of his reign was marked by increasingly polarizing politics, and the second half by war and domination of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the Three Pashas.

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