#mahidevran

I truly cannot believe how many long debunked historical myths are still circling in this fandom, especially since they often consider stuff that truly has no real support in evidence.

Mahidevran was not a princess or from any noble family, we know about her origins even less than Hürrem’s, where we can at least pretty safely say she came from Ruthenian lands. She was also a slave, the difference (as put by Peirce and argued convincingly) could be only that she was brought up and trained especially to be sent to harem one day (something like the original Mahfiruz in MCK in her story to Nasya) and did not pass through slave market.

Yet what do we get spread? Various names of her, her father, his occupation, even long genealogies.. it’s all fake. Like all the tiktoks with her “life history” make my head spin. And of course add that Raziye and Taslicali Yahya myth (Raziye, IF /huge if/ she even was Mahi’s daughter, died as infant 100%, and did not marry anyone ofc).

Worst when these people claim it’s in “book”. The Natalia von Antwerp German “real biography of Mahidevran” was written on the basis of claims by the confirmed attention seeking fraud, Melike de Chimay, whom I had discussed here like 2 years ago. She claimed to be a descendant of Mahi (yes, yes) whom her grandma had passed on “truth” before dying and then invented whole “Circassian Ottoman soap opera” with everyone being Circassian and related (like Mahfiruz being anther descendant of Mahi etc.  also e.g. Ayse being Kemankes’ niece etc etc… bullshit).

Melike even posts links to that book on her blog to advertise purchasing it via her ffs…

It’s all a fraud on which they cash on money because these days anything can be published and sold as “unknown real history”…and now with Tik Tok videos where sources and discussion are nowhere to be found, her theories have seemed to gain second life.