[4] His father was Abdulaziz, son of Mahmud II and Pertevniyal Sultan, and his mother was Gevheri Kadın.

[9] He spent his childhood and early youth in Feriye Palace along with his sister and mother.

[10] His music teachers were Tanbûrî Cemil Bey and Santûrî Edhem Efendi.

This mansion once belonged to Necip Molla (died 1890), father of Vahit Bey, a member of the former Council of the State.

[11][12] She was born on 27 March 1885 in Poti, Georgia, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire.

[17] Apart from music, he also set mahya lights on the minarets of mosques of Istanbul in Ramadan.

[20] After the Armistice of Mudros was concluded in October 1918, chaos and invasions emerged in Anatolia.

The government sent counselling committees to Anatolia under the leadership of princes and invited the people to peace.

Scholar Ziyaeddin Efendi a representative from the Foreign Translation Office was also included in the delegation.

[20] Seyfeddin who was keen on maritime and shipbuilding, went to Vienna and Karsbald thermal springs for treatment in 1918.

[22] He died on 19 October 1927 at the age of fifty-three and was buried in the cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Damascus, Syria.