Egyptian dissidents, had indeed attended anti-Nasser meetings in Geneva and the South of France in August 1956. On 29 April 1958, he was tried in absentia on charges of plotting against Nasser, and was sentenced to fifteen years in jail. Luckily for him he was in Europe at the time. In 1958 he was asked to help negotiate the marriage of Princess Sabiha Fazile Hanımsultan, the only daughter of Prince Muhammad Ali Ibrahim of Egypt and Princess Hanzade Sultan, to King Faisal II of Iraq. The engagement was ended by the murder of King Faisal II, following a military coup on 14 July 1958. For his utter misfortune Namık was in Iraq on 14 July 1958 when a bloody revolution broke out in that country. Mending fences with its republican neighbors, the new military junta offered the captured prince to a pitiless Nasser in exchange for improved relations with Egypt. Namık was thus flown to Cairo on 31 August 1958 to face retrial receiving a fifteen year jail sentence in Tora Prison. Death Mahmud died at the age of forty-nine from a stroke, at Cairo, Egypt on 13 November 1963. The funeral took place in the garden of the prison, and was attended by relatives and few Turkish citizens living in Cairo. He was buried in the private tomb of his former wife, Şehrazad Hanım. In 1977, he was reburied in the mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II in Istanbul. Issue By his wife, he had an only son: Şehzade Ömer Abdülmecid Namik (4 June 1941, Alexandria of Egypt - March 2003, Paris). He married Beulah Banbury (b. 8 April 1943 - 21 February 2003, Paris). They had a son: Şehzade Mahmud Francis Namik-Bambury (b. 27 April 1975, London) Ancestry References Bibliography External links Family Tree, descendants of Sultan Mahmud II. Retrieved 2011-02-28. 1913 births Royalty from Istanbul Ottoman princes 1963 deaths