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Fatma Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمہ سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566-74) of the Ottoman Empire. She was the granddaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent (reign 1520-66) and Hürrem Sultan, sister of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574-95) and aunt of Sultan Mehmed III (reign 1595-1603).
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Fatma was born in 1559, during Selim's princedom, at Konya or Karaman where he served as sanjakbey at the time. Her mother's identity is uncertain;it is suggested that she was the fourth daughter of Nurbanu Sultan, however the claim remains disputed.
She was married, in 1574,to Damat Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha (d.1602) Governor of Rumelia, Grand Vizier 1582-1584, 1586-1589, 1592-1593. The marriage was happy, as indicated by the fact that she pleaded with her brother Murad to spare the Pasha's life when at some point the latter fell out of favour. She bore her husband three sons and a daughter.
Fatma Sultan died in October 1580 at Istanbul, as a result of her daughter being born prematurely; the child reportedly died too. She was buried in her father's mausoleum in Hagia Sophia Mosque.
Her spouse named after her a madrasah he built around 1590-1591.