Background
Resan Hanımefendi was born on 28 March 1860 in Artvin to a Georgian noble family. Born as Ayşe, she was the daughter of Ömer Bey and his wife Fatma Hanım.
Resan Hanımefendi was born on 28 March 1860 in Artvin to a Georgian noble family. Born as Ayşe, she was the daughter of Ömer Bey and his wife Fatma Hanım.
She had a sister Rabia Gülten Hanım, and a foster sister named, Şayeste Hanım. Ayşe grew into a young lady in Seniha Sultan"s Palace, where she was noticed by Murad. Seniha Sultan, sent the young girl to the Çırağan Palace, where Murad married her on 2 November 1877, a year after Murad and his family"s imprisonment in the palace.
Two years after the marriage, she gave birth to Fatma Sultan, followed by the birth of Aliye Sultan the next year.
After Murad"s death in 1904, she continued to reside in the Çırağan Palace during the second constitutional era after 16 December 1908. Resan returned to Istanbul.
She died of Tuberculosis on 31 March 1910 and was buried in the mausoleum of Eyüp, Istanbul.