Sittişah Hatun
| Sittî Şâh Hâtun ستی شاہ خاتون |
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A 15th century idealized portrait of Mükrime Hatun, painted in Byzantine style
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| Born | Mükrime (Mükerreme) c. ? Elbistan, Beylik of Dulkadir |
| Died | September 1486 Edirne, Ottoman Empire |
| Burial | Muradiye Complex, Bursa, Turkey |
| Spouse | Mehmed II |
| Father | of the Beylik of Dulkadir |
| Religion | Taṣawwufī Islam |
Sittî Mükerreme Hâtun or Sittişah Hatun, ( b. c. ? , Elbistan, Beylik of Dulkadir – d. September 1486, Edirne, Ottoman Empire), was the third wife of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and the real-biological mother of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II. She was one of the daughters of , the sixth ruler of Dulkadir State. She was married to Mehmed II on December 15, 1449 in Edirne. Her marriage served as an alliance between the Ottomans and this buffer state.
Sittişah Hatun was born in 1435 in Elbistan, Kahramanmaraş Province, Dulkadir State. Born as Mükrime, she was the daughter of Süleyman Bey, the sixth ruler of Dulkadir State. Her aunt Emine Hatun, daughter of Nasıreddin Muhammed Bey, the fifth ruler of Dulkadirids was married to Sultan Murad's father Mehmed I. While her other aunt was married to the aged Mamluk Sultan at Cairo. Later Ayşe Gülbahar Hatun, Süleyman Bey's grand daughter, was married to the future Sultan Bayezid II and became the mother of Selim I, known as the grim.
Süleyman Bey, who is described as a man of unshapely corpulence and pathological sensuality but also as a skillful horsemen and the owner of magnificent stables, possessed a considerable army of brave, devoted Turk men and was fabulously wealthy, two circumstances which in themselves sufficed to incline Murad toward the union of his son and heir with this respected noble families which centuries later, though dispossessed of its lands, was still revered as a family of royal blood. The Byzantine chronicler Ducas was convinced, not without reason, that one of the Sultan's chief motives in seeking this marriage was to obtain an ally against the arrogant Karamanids and Jahan Shah, the chief of the Turk men Black Sheep Tribe (Kara Koyunlu).
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