Bezm-i Alem Mother Sultan

The investigations about the palace women are getting increased at the recent years inTurkey. At the many works writed in this field the mother sultans are attached importance inthe palace women. However, in these works, generaly the source, the son of mother sultansand the negative affect on the goverment administration is placed. Besides, the charity ofthem and the works which is the indications of these charity are not placed. For that reason alot of mother sultansa re always mentioned with their negative sides, the charity that they didalong their life was behind. But mother of sultans spent a big amount of their wealth forcharity. One of this mentioned mother sultans is Bezm-i Âlem.Bezm-i Âlem is a famous mother sultan because of her involving to goverment adminand her charity. Along the fourteen years which she was mother sultan, she affected his sonAbdulmecit very much. However, the harem which is represented by her approached Europanlife style and depending on that the lux and waste was increased. Although all of these, Bezm-i Âlem was attached attractalong her life with her charity and gained the affection of people.For example the arts which is not being known by a lot of people but is used by everyone isthe products of Bezm-i Âlem sultan?s charity. For that reason it is suitable that theinvestigations on the palace women must be objective.