Manolya Onur

Manolya Onur (born 1955) is a Turkish woman, who competed in the Miss Turkey pageant in 1976 and represented Turkey in the 1976 Miss Universe beauty pageant. She was the third wife of Hyderabad Nizam Mukarram Jah.^[1]

Manolya had a career as a model from 1976 to 1978. She spent six years in France studying English, French, German as well as the History of Art at the Sorbonne University, France. She is former wife of Süha Özgermi.

Manolya married Mukarram Jah in August 1990 at Ciragan Palace, Hyderabad and became a princess styled as H.E.H. Manolya-i-Nur Begum Sahiba. She lived in India and Australia during her marriage. Their daughter Nilufer (named after Princess Niloufer) was born in 1991.^[2] Nizam divorced Manolya in 1993 at Geneva, Switzerland. After her divorce, Manolya moved back to Turkey and since then she has been living in Istanbul and working for charitable institutions such as the Osteoporosis Patient Society of Turkey.

References

1. ^ Shrivastava, Namita A (2006-03-19), "Princess diaries", Times of India, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1455717,prtpage-1.cms 
2. ^ "Turkish Beauty Fights for Justice", Times of India, 2006-03-21, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1457880,flstry-1.cms 

External links

• Manolya's profile in osteoporosis foundation website

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