Fatma Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمہ سلطان; c. 1559 – October 1580) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574) of the Ottoman Empire. She was the granddaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent (reign 1520–66) and Hürrem Sultan, half-sister of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1595) and the aunt of Sultan Mehmed III (reign 1595–1603).
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Early life
Fatma was born circa 1559 during Selim's princedom, at Konya where he served as sanjakbey, or provincial governor, at the time. She was her father's youngest daughter. Her mother's identity is uncertain.
It was earlier disputed whether she was the daughter of Nurbanu Sultan but considering that Nurbanu accompanied her son, Murad to his province to which he was appointed by his grandfather, Suleiman the Magnificent in 1558 and Fatma was born in 1559, Peirce had debunked this possibility. That Fatma was born with an unknown concubine is further proved by the provision made by her for her mother for 40 aspers, which was definitely not required by a woman paid 1,100 aspers by the end of Selim II's reign as haseki sultan and 2,000 aspers in her son, Murad III's reign as valide sultan and who had died in 1583, predating Fatma's will.