This book is composed of two chapters on two different topics. In the first part, I have studied the exile days of SultanAbdülhamid II in Salonika (1909-1912). This chapter is a narrative of the 1278dayshehad spent inexilebetweenthe nightof27April1909when hewas taken toSalonika by train and earlymorningof
1 November 1912 when he was brought to the Beylerbeyi Palace I have interrupted the chronological narrative of the events, and put subsections on the Villa Alâtini where he resided inSalonika;whyhewas exiled andwhySalonikawas chosen; his life and thoughts in exile;hisguards and doctors inSalonika; and the excursion
of Sultan Mehmed V Reşad to Rumeli, and the “Salute of the Sultan.”.In the second part, I have studied a phenomenon that occurred at the same time period that I focused in the first part: in severalways, SultanAbdülhamid II’swealthwas seized, or confiscated, as he had written in a letter titled “My Petition to the State, Nation, Parliament, and Soldiers.” In this chapter, I have worked on the plunder in the Yıldız Palace; seizure of his real estate left to the use
of Ministry of Finance as a guarantee for a loan in his name; the forced donation of his money and shares in national and foreign banks to be used for the Second and Third Ottoman Armies; seizure of his money found in the Yıldız Palace; the auction of the jewelry found in the Yıldız Palace for the benefit of the Donanma-i Osmânî İâne-i Milliye Cemiyeti; and the story of the money and jewelry found in the Beylerbeyi Palace
after his death.