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The video is from the Hosseini Infants Ceremony, an annual ritual held on the first Friday of the Islamic month of Muharram.

She aspired to be her father’s heir. In March 1924, Turkey became a republic, leading to the end of the caliphate and the exile of the royal family from the country.