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  "ar": "يوسف عز الدين",
  "en": "Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin",
  "ur": "یوسف عزالدین"
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  "ar": "أمير عثماني، أكبر أبناء السلطان عبد العزيز، وولي عهد الدولة العثمانية من 1909 حتى وفاته. أُخفي في طفولته لأن الأمراء كانوا ممنوعين من الإنجاب قبل الجلوس على العرش، وبلغ رتبة مشير وصار وليًّا للعهد في عهد محمد الخامس، لكنه عاش سنواته الأخيرة في القلق والريبة، ومات منتحرًا في قصره بزنجرلي كويو سنة 1916.",
  "en": "Ottoman prince, eldest son of Sultan Abdulaziz, and crown prince of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 until his death. Concealed in childhood because princes were barred from fathering children before accession, he rose to field marshal and heir under Mehmed V, but lived his last years in anxiety and suspicion, and died by suicide at his Zincirlikuyu villa in 1916.",
  "ur": "عثمانی شہزادے، سلطان عبدالعزیز کے بڑے فرزند، اور 1909 سے وفات تک سلطنتِ عثمانیہ کے ولی عہد۔ بچپن میں چھپائے گئے کیونکہ شہزادوں کو تخت نشینی سے پہلے اولاد کی اجازت نہ تھی؛ محمد خامس کے عہد میں مشیر کے رتبے اور ولی عہدی تک پہنچے، مگر آخری برس اضطراب اور بدگمانی میں گزارے اور 1916 میں اپنی زنجرلی کویو حویلی میں خودکشی کر لی۔"
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   "note": "The birth day is split three ways across the sources. The Turkish article and Wikidata give 10 October 1857 at Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, and the record follows that reading. The English article's infobox and early-life text give 29 September 1857, citing Adra's genealogy of the imperial family, and its lead gives 11 October 1857. He was the eldest son of Sultan Abdulaziz, then still a prince, and Dürrinev Kadın; because princes were barred from having children before accession, his existence was concealed until his father's accession in 1861. The Hijri year 1274 is the derived conversion of 1857.",
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    "value": "شهزادہ یوسف عزالدین",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "الشاهزاده يوسف عز الدين (1857 – 1 فبراير 1916) أمير عثماني، أكبر أبناء السلطان عبد العزيز، وولي عهد الدولة العثمانية من 27 أبريل 1909 حتى وفاته. وهو مشير قاد الجيش الأول في مراهقته، عاش سنواته الأخيرة قلقًا من إزاحته عن ولاية العهد، ومات منتحرًا في قصره بإسطنبول. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}\n\nيوم ميلاده مذكور بثلاث قراءات في المصادر: 10 أكتوبر 1857 في المقالة التركية وويكيبيانات، وهي التي يتبعها هذا السجل؛ و29 سبتمبر 1857 في صندوق معلومات المقالة الإنجليزية ونصها، مستندة إلى كتاب أدرا في أنساب الأسرة العثمانية؛ و11 أكتوبر 1857 في مقدمة المقالة الإنجليزية. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-tr} {cite:wikidata-yusuf-izzeddin} {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في قصر دولما بهجة للأمير آنذاك عبد العزيز ودورنّو قادين. ولأن الأمراء كانوا ممنوعين من الإنجاب قبل الجلوس على العرش، رُبّي الطفل مخفيًّا في أيوب حتى جلوس أبيه سنة 1861. تعلّم في مدرسة الأمراء بدولما بهجة، والتحق بالجيش طفلًا صغيرًا وترقى سريعًا: ففي الرابعة عشرة عُيّن رئيسًا لأركان الجيش الأول ثم قائدًا له، ورافق أباه في رحلات إلى إزميت ومصر وأوروبا. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وليًّا للعهد في عهد سلطانين",
     "markdown": "سارت شائعات بأن عبد العزيز ينوي تغيير نظام الوراثة لصالح ابنه، وبعد خلع السلطان ووفاته سنة 1876 وقع عز الدين تحت شبهة عبد الحميد الثاني، الذي بنى مخفر شرطة قبالة بيته الريفي. وحين اعتلى محمد الخامس العرش سنة 1909 صار عز الدين وليًّا للعهد. وقد وُصف بأنه محافظ متدين وفخور أيضًا؛ وعانى القلق والاكتئاب، وخشي التسميم، وضغط حتى على السلطان أن يقسم له أنه لن يُزاح عن الولاية. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "في 1 فبراير 1916 مات منتحرًا في قصره بزنجرلي كويو في إسطنبول، ودُفن في ضريح جده السلطان محمود الثاني في تشمبرلي طاش. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en} {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المذكورة أعلاه، مسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- يجب أن تكون مراجعات هذه المقالة مؤرخة، وأن تسمي المصدر الذي غيّر كل واقعة."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin (1857 – 1 February 1916) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdulaziz, and crown prince of the Ottoman Empire from 27 April 1909 until his death. A field marshal who commanded the First Army in his teens, he lived his last years in anxiety that he would be displaced from the succession, and died by suicide at his Istanbul villa. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}\n\nHis birth day is given three ways in the sources: 10 October 1857 in the Turkish article and Wikidata, which this record follows; 29 September 1857 in the English article's infobox and text, citing Adra's genealogy of the imperial family; and 11 October 1857 in the English article's lead. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-tr} {cite:wikidata-yusuf-izzeddin} {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "He was born at Dolmabahçe Palace to the then-prince Abdulaziz and Dürrinev Kadın. Because princes were forbidden to father children before ascending the throne, the boy was brought up concealed at Eyüp until his father's accession in 1861. Educated in the Prince's School at Dolmabahçe, he was enlisted in the army as a small child and promoted quickly: at fourteen he was made chief of staff, then commander, of the First Imperial Army, and he accompanied his father on journeys to İzmit, Egypt and Europe. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Heir under two sultans",
     "markdown": "Abdulaziz was rumoured to intend changing the succession in his son's favour, and after the sultan's deposition and death in 1876 Izzeddin fell under the suspicion of Abdul Hamid II, who had a police station built opposite his country house. When Mehmed V came to the throne in 1909, Izzeddin became crown prince. He was described as a conservative and pious man, and also as proud; he suffered anxiety and depression, feared poisoning, and pressed even the sultan to swear he would not be removed as heir. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "On 1 February 1916 he died by suicide at his villa at Zincirlikuyu, Istanbul. He was buried in the mausoleum of his grandfather Sultan Mahmud II at Çemberlitaş. {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en} {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-tr}"
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     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "شہزادہ یوسف عزالدین (1857 تا 1 فروری 1916) عثمانی شہزادے، سلطان عبدالعزیز کے بڑے فرزند، اور 27 اپریل 1909 سے وفات تک سلطنتِ عثمانیہ کے ولی عہد تھے۔ مشیر کے رتبے تک پہنچے اور نوجوانی میں پہلی فوج کی کمان سنبھالی، مگر آخری برس اس اضطراب میں گزارے کہ انھیں ولی عہدی سے ہٹا دیا جائے گا، اور اپنے استنبول کے ولا میں خودکشی کر لی۔ {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}\n\nتاریخِ پیدائش ماخذوں میں تین طرح آئی ہے: ترکی مضمون اور ویکی ڈیٹا میں 10 اکتوبر 1857، جسے یہ ریکارڈ اختیار کرتا ہے؛ انگریزی مضمون کے معلوماتی خانے اور متن میں 29 ستمبر 1857، ادرا کی شاہی خاندان کی نسب نامہ کتاب کے حوالے سے؛ اور انگریزی مضمون کے مقدمے میں 11 اکتوبر 1857۔ {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-tr} {cite:wikidata-yusuf-izzeddin} {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
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    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "دولمہ باغچہ محل میں اس وقت کے شہزادے عبدالعزیز اور درّنو قادن کے ہاں پیدا ہوئے۔ چونکہ شہزادوں کو تخت نشینی سے پہلے اولاد کی اجازت نہ تھی، بچے کو 1861 میں والد کی تخت نشینی تک ایوب میں چھپا کر پالا گیا۔ دولمہ باغچہ کے شہزادوں کے مدرسے میں تعلیم پائی، بچپن ہی میں فوج میں بھرتی ہوئے اور تیزی سے ترقی کی: چودہ برس کی عمر میں پہلی شاہی فوج کے رئیسِ ارکان پھر کماندار بنے اور والد کے ساتھ ازمیت، مصر اور یورپ کے سفر کیے۔ {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دو سلطانوں کے عہد میں ولی عہد",
     "markdown": "افواہ تھی کہ عبدالعزیز جانشینی کا نظام بیٹے کے حق میں بدلنا چاہتے ہیں، اور 1876 میں سلطان کی معزولی و وفات کے بعد عزالدین عبدالحمید ثانی کے شبہے میں آ گئے، جنھوں نے ان کے دیہاتی گھر کے سامنے پولیس چوکی بنوائی۔ 1909 میں محمد خامس کے تخت نشین ہونے پر عزالدین ولی عہد بنے۔ وہ قدامت پسند اور دیندار بیان کیے گئے، اور مغرور بھی؛ اضطراب و افسردگی میں مبتلا، زہر دیے جانے کے خوف میں رہتے اور سلطان سے بھی قسم لیتے کہ انھیں ولی عہدی سے نہیں ہٹایا جائے گا۔ {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "1 فروری 1916 کو استنبول کے زنجرلی کویو میں اپنے ولا میں خودکشی کر لی۔ چمبرلی تاش میں اپنے دادا سلطان محمود ثانی کے مقبرے میں دفن ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-en} {cite:wikipedia-yusuf-izzeddin-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مصادر",
     "markdown": "- مذکورہ بالا معرف ماخذ اکائیاں، `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مضمون کی ہر ترمیم مؤرخ ہونی چاہیے اور ہر تبدیلی کا ماخذ نامزد کرے۔"
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