Her father was Prince Mehmed Bey Kerzedzh and her mother the Abkhazian Princess Faruhan Hanım İnal-lpa.

When Russia invaded the Caucasus and exterminated the Circassians, she managed to escape to Istanbul, where she entered the Ottoman court.

[2] Bedrifelek received a good education and married Abdul Hamid on 15 November 1868 in the Dolmabahçe Palace.

[6][7] In 1877, Bedrifelek and other members of the imperial family settled in the Yıldız Palace,[8] after Abdul Hamid moved there on 7 April 1877.

[10] Abdülhamid did not get along with Mehmed Selim and this damaged his relationship with Bedrifelek, because in order not to see his son he stopped visiting her and in public he treated her coldly.

Following the 31 March Incident, there was the concrete possibility for Bedrifelek to become Valide Sultan because her son Mehmed Selim had been chosen as his father’s successor.

[14] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.