NEW YORK: Bayezid Osman, also known as Osman Bayazid Osmanoglu and the 44th head of the Ottoman family died here at the age of 92.
He is the first member of the House of Osman to be born in exile, and the first head to have been born after the dissolution of the Empire. After his parents’ separation, his father died in 1931, and his mother Hadice Sadiye remarried a United States citizen. In 1941, he moved to the United States with his mother, older brother and two stepbrothers.
Osman has never married and has no children. On 23 September 2009 with the death of Ertugrul Osman, he succeeded to the head of the House of Osman.
