Sultan Abdulhamid II, the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was remembered in Istanbul on Sunday, 101 years since he passed away.

Axar.az reports citing Turkish media.

Abdulhamid II was commemorated in the city's Cemberlitas district, where his gravesite is located, with a ceremony attended by many people, including Coskun Yilmaz, Istanbul's provincial culture and tourism director, and the sultan's grandson Abdulhamid Kayihan Osmanoglu.

Verses from the Quran were read out near his gravesite as part of the commemoration, and participants prayed for the late sultan.

Abdulhamid II, the son of Sultan Abdulmecid, died at Istanbul's Beylerbeyi Palace on Feb. 10, 1918.