[5] After her father's death in 1931, her mother came back to Nice, took her, and went first to Paris and then to Egypt, where she married a Tatar by the name of Seyfulin Bey, who brought up Fevziye as if she were his own daughter.
Fevziye lived for some time with Princess Wijdan,[6] wife of Prince Ibrahim Hilmi, son of Khedive Isma'il Pasha of Egypt.
Princess Wijdan wanted to raise the young Fevziye as her own and find her a suitable husband, but when she lost all her money gambling she was obliged to send her back to her mother.
[9] Khayri Bey was later accused of taking part in the 1956 plot to overthrow President Gamal Abdel Nasser, arrested, and never seen again.
[10][11] Her funeral was held in the Grande Mosquée de Paris[12] and was attended by her relatives in France and Switzerland, along with Turkey's Parist Embassy Undersecretary Ali Onaner.