Personal life
Süleyman was allocated apartments in the Feriye Palace. He and his family used to spend their summers at Nisbettiye Mansion at Bosporus and the winters at Feriye Palace. He also owned a farmhouse in Balmumcu.
His first wife was Filişan Hanım. She was born on 17 July 1869 in Batumi, Georgia, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire. They married on 10 October 1885. She remained childless. A benevolent person, she looked after Naciye Sultan, and helped her in her lessons, and playing piano. She also looked after Naciye's eldest daughter, Mahpeyker Hanımsultan. She died in 1947 in Bebek, Istanbul.
His second wife was Emine Cavidan Hanım. She was the daughter of Bezmiara Kadın, who was the former wife of Sultan Abdulmejid, whom she had divorced marrying Tevfik Pasha. Cavidan was born on 28 October 1862, and was raised by the Egyptian Princess Zeynep Hanım, daughter of Muhammad Ali of Egypt. They married in 1886, with Zeynep Hanım's consent. She remained childless. However, the marriage didn't last long. After Abdul Hamid told Süleyman that she wasn't suitable for him, he divorced her. Abdul Hamid then married her to Prince Hüseyin Bey of Egypt.
His third wife was Fatma İkbal Hanım. She was born on 19 September 1871, in Adapazarı, Sakarya Province. They married in 1893. She was the mother of Şehzade Mehmed Abdülhalim, born on 28 September 1894. She died on 20 November 1932 and the age of sixty-one in Beşiktaş, Istanbul.
His fourth wife was Ayşe Tarziter Hanım. She was born on 4 February 1880 in Ganja, Azerbaijan, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire. She was a member of Abkhazian family Bargan-Ipa. They married in 1895. She was the mother of Emine Naciye Sultan born on 25 October 1896, and Şehzade Mehmed Şerefeddin born on 19 May 1904. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Tarziter and her son settled in Beirut, Lebanon.
His fifth and last wife was Ayşe Zatimelek Hanım. She was born in Uzuncaorman village, Hendek. She was the daughter of Prince Nuri Bey Tapş-Ipa and Princess Nazife Hanım Achba. She had a brother, Prince Rıza Bey Tapş-Ipa. She had been in the entourage of Sultan Abdulmejid's wife Verdicenan Kadın. Sometime later, she was sent to Dolmabahçe Palace, where she married Süleyman in 1899. After Süleyman's death in 1909, she moved to a mansion in Ortaköy. She started her work, devoted herself to charity and transformed the ground floor of her mansion into a tailor shop. She started to send items such as quilts, blankets and clothes that she sewed here with the help of a few people to the families of the soldiers working on the front. After the proclamation of republic in 1922, she moved in with her brother. In 1934, in accordance to the Surname Law, she took the surname "Tapşın". She died in Amasya in 1941, where her brother served as the deputy governor.
