Atike Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)

Burnaz Atike Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: برناز عاتکه سلطان; died fl. 1683) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed I.

Atike Sultan
Born1614
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
DiedJune 1690
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Ibrahim I mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque
Spouse
Koca Kenan Pasha
(died 1652)
Doğancı Yusuf Pasha
(m. 1652)
Names
Burnaz Atike Sultan
DynastyOttoman
FatherAhmed I
MotherKöşem sultan
ReligionSunni Islam

Her first husband was the son of Etmekçizade Ahmed Pasha (died 1618). They married most probably in 1618. Upon the death of her husband, she was married to Koca Kenan Pasha.:168 By 1639, during the reign of her brother sultan Murad IV, her stipend was 330 aspers a day.

Mihnea III, the ruler of Wallachia was a good friend of Atike and her husband Kenan Pasha. Mihnea, as stated by the renowned Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi, experienced the privilege of being treated as their adopted son.

Turhan Sultan, consort of her brother sultan Ibrahim, and the mother of sultan Mehmed IV, and who had been a gift of Kör Süleyman Pasha to Kösem Sultan, had been trained by Atike Sultan.

After Kenan Pasha's death, she married Doğancı Yusuf Pasha in 1652. In 1683, she commissioned a fountain (çeşme) between Salacak and Doğancılar.

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