Şehzade Mehmed Orhan Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: محمد اور خان; also Mehmed Orhan Osmanoğlu; 12 October 1909 – 12 March 1994) was an Ottoman prince and the 42nd head of the Ottoman dynasty from 1983 to 1994. He was the advisor of King Zog I of the Albanians and succeeded as head of the Ottoman dynasty on 9 December 1983, following the death of Şehzade Ali Vâsib.
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Early life
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan was born on 12 October 1909 in Üsküdar. According to his aunt Ayşe Sultan, he was born in Naime Sultan's Palace. His father was Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, son of Abdul Hamid II and Bidar Kadın, and his mother was Mihriban Hanım, an ethnic Abkhazian. After his parents divorced in 1913, he and his mother went to live in with his uncle. He was then enrolled in Galatasaray High School and Robert College.
Life in exile
At the exile of the Imperial Family in March 1924, Mehmed Orhan settled in Budapest, Hungary. He then went to live with his uncle in Beirut, Lebanon, and then to his aunt Naime Sultan in Nice, France. From here he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lived for two and a half years.