Education
University of Paris.
University of Paris.
She was the third wife of Mukarram Jah, Nizam of Hyderabad. She was also a granddaughter-in-law of Sultan Abdülmecid World War II Manolya had a career as a model from 1976 to 1978. She spent six years in France studying English, French, German as well as the History of Art at the Sorbonne University, France.
She is former wife of Süha Özgermi.
Manolya married Mukarram Jah in August 1990 at Ciragan Palace, Hyderabad and became a princess styled as H.E.H. Manolya-i-Nur Begum Sahiba. Their daughter Nilufer (named after Princess Niloufer) was born in 1991.
Nizam divorced Manolya in 1993 at Geneva, Switzerland. After her divorce, Manolya moved back to Turkey and since then she has been living in Istanbul and working for charitable institutions such as the Osteoporosis Patient Society of Turkey.