The last surviving head of the House of Osman, the royal dynasty that once ruled the Ottoman Empire-which ruled vast territories for six centuries, before it was replaced by the Turkish Republic-has died at age 88 in Syria.
Prince Dündar Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu lost his life at a hospital on Monday in the Syrian capital Damascus, where he had been receiving treatment.
Commenting on the news, his nephew Prince Abdulhamid Kayıhan Osmanoğlu said: "My uncle Dündar had serious health problems and he was living in Damascus amid a war environment. We were trying hard to get him to Turkey, but unfortunately we could not."
Abdulhamid Kayıhan extended his condolences to the Turkish people over Osmanoğlu's passing.
