She was a lady-in-waiting to Nazikeda Kadın, wife of Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Her father was Prince Abdülkadir Hasan Bey Marshania,[4] (1862 - 1917) an office in the Ottoman army whose family had migrated from the Caucasus, and her mother was Princess Mevlüde İnal-lpa (1862 - 1937), also an Abkhazian.
[9][3] At a young age, she and her sister were sent to Istanbul to their aunt Nazikeda Kadın, who had been married to then Şehzade Vahideddin (future Sultan Mehmed VI).
During this time the revolutionaries closed Nazikeda along with her ladies-in-waiting, including Şahinde in the Feriye Palace.
On the day of her release Şahinde was stabbed by a fanatical revolutionary in the street, and died a short time later in because of her serious injury on 15 March 1924 in Istanbul.