Editing Murad V (section)

=== Confinement ===
In confinement, Murad's consort [[Gevherriz Hanım]] worked with Nakşifend Kalfa, the [[hazinedar]] Dilberengiz, the eunuch Hüseyin Ağa, and Hüsnü Bey (who had been Second Secretary of Murad) to allow for a British physician to meet with Murad to ascertain Murad's mental fitness. When the physician arrived, Gevherriz served as translator. It is not clear how true this story is, and it is possible the physician was sent by freemasons rather than by the British.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|pp=68–72}}

In 1877, some nine months into confinement, Murad regained his mental faculties. The first two years of his confinement in Çırağan witnessed three attempts by supporters to free him and restore him to the throne, but all three resulted only in Abdul Hamid's tightening the cordon that isolated Çırağan Palace from the city around it.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=17}}

==== Ali Suavi incident ====
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[[File:Ali Suavi-2.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Ali Suavi, an Ottoman political activist, journalist, educator, theologian and reformer, involved in the incident]]
On 20 May 1878,{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=76 n. 51}} an attempt was made to liberate Murad from the Çırağan Palace and restore him to the throne. Murad's brothers, [[Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin]] and [[Şehzade Selim Süleyman]], and sisters, [[Fatma Sultan (daughter of Abdulmejid I)|Fatma Sultan]] and [[Seniha Sultan]], and her husband Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha were involved in the plot.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=76}} They all wanted to see Murad regain the throne.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=76 n. 51}} During the incident, [[Ali Suavi]], a radical political opponent of Abdul Hamid's authoritarian regime, stormed the palace with a band of armed refugees from the recent [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|Russo-Turkish War]].{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=76 n. 51}} The Ottoman battleship ''[[Ottoman ironclad Mesudiye|Mesudiye]]'' was anchored offshore the palace to take Murad and announce his accession.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|pp=79, 85 n. 62}} But he did not reach the ship,{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=79}} and Ali Suavi's men were unable to overcome the Beşiktaş police prefect Hacı Hasan Pasha's fierce resistance.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|pp=79–80}} The plot failed, and Ali Suavi and most of his men were killed.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|pp=76 n. 51, 80 n. 56}} According to "İngiliz" ("English") Said Pasha,<ref>He wasn't English nor British, the reason why he was called as such resulted from him speaking English fluently and being pro-British in foreign policy.</ref> moments before his death, Ali Suavi took Murad's arm and said to him, "O our Lord, come, deliver us from the Muscovites." ("''Aman efendimiz, gel bizi Moskoflardan ḫalâṣ et.''")<ref>{{cite book |last1=Çağlar |first1=Burhan |title=İngiliz Said Paşa ve Günlüğü (Jurnal) |date=2010 |publisher=Arı Sanat |location=İstanbul |isbn=9944742252 |page=143 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7D0pX8btt4oC&pg=PA143 |access-date=1 February 2025}}</ref> In the aftermath, security at the Çırağan Palace was tightened.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=85}}

==== Life in confinement ====
[[File:Istanbul Çırağan Palace (239841121).jpeg|thumb|right|Çırağan Palace, where Murad and his family were confined by Sultan Abdul Hamid for twenty-eight years until Murad's death in 1904]]
His mental faculties restored, Murad lived out a far more benign existence than that attributed to him by the Western press. Reports through the years claimed that he languished in prison, or escaped and was hiding, or lectured his brother on the Armenian troubles.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|p=17}}

After his mother's death in 1889, Murad focused all his love and attention on his children. Selaheddin became his companion in grief, and the two of them passed long hours together reminiscing and speculating about the future. For a time, they took an interest in the ''[[Mesnevi]]'', taking great pleasure in reciting verses from it.{{sfn|Brookes|2010|pp=98–99}}