Mehmed VI

Abdülmecid II (1868-1944) was elected caliph by the Turkish Grand National Assembly in November 1922, after it separated the caliphate from the sultanate. He held an office stripped of temporal power for sixteen months until its abolition on 3 March 1924, then lived in exile until 1944.

Mehmed VI Vahideddin (1861-1926) was the thirty-sixth and last Ottoman sultan, reigning from 1918 to 1922. He governed under Allied occupation, his government signed the Treaty of Sevres, and he left Istanbul on a British warship after the sultanate was abolished.