Behice Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: بھیجه خانم; "Happy"; born Behiye Maan; 10 October 1882 – 22 October 1969; after the Surname Law of 1934: Behice Maan) was a consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.
Her mother was Nazli Hanım Kucba, an Abkhazian,[4][5] daughter of Hacı Kuç Pasha.
[4] Behiye's father learned that Abdul Hamid was looking for a bride for his son, Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin, and hence, in 1899 brought her to the court, and presented her to the Sultan.
[15] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.
A relative who visited her in Italy in 1969 was appalled by the conditions she lived in: her hair was unkempt, her nails had grown extremely long and she had not washed herself in weeks.
[17] In March 1969, she was reported in Istanbul by her family, where she died seven months later, on 22 October 1969 at the age of eighty-seven.