Battersby served in the Royal Marines, became an architect/ health planner, and spent most of his career working as a public health consultant for various UN agencies. Sabiha, Kemal's second wife, went into exile in Switzerland with her son Zeki Kuneralp. He returned to Turkey after the death of Atatürk and was admitted—with the personal approval of President İsmet İnönü—into the Turkish Diplomatic Service, serving twice as its Permanent Under-secretary in the 1960s and serving as ambassador to London from 1964 to 1966 and again from 1966 to 1972. His wife and her brother were killed when an unidentified Armenian terrorist opened fire on his car while he was serving as ambassador in Madrid in 1978. Zeki Kuneralp wrote an account of his father's life in English for the benefit of the British side of the family. Zeki's sons Sinan and Selim both live in Turkey. The former is a publisher in Istanbul and the latter followed his father into the diplomatic service. References Notes Primary sources M. Kayahan Özgül (ed.), Ali Kemâl, Ömrüm (Hece yayınları, Ankara, 2004) Zeki Kuneralp, ed., Ali Kemal, Ömrüm (İsis Publications, Istanbul, 1985) Secondary sources Osman Özsoy, Gazetecinin İnfazı ["The Execution of a Journalist", biography] (Timaş Yayınları, Istanbul, 1995) External links 1869 births 1922 deaths Assassinated journalists from the Ottoman Empire Deaths by beating Government ministers of the Ottoman Empire Exiles from the Ottoman Empire People from the Ottoman Empire of Circassian descent Political people from the Ottoman Empire Turks from the Ottoman Empire Journalists from Istanbul People murdered in Turkey Turkish people of Circassian descent Turkish-language poets Witnesses of the Armenian genocide 19th-century journalists from the Ottoman Empire 20th-century journalists from the Ottoman Empire People from Çankırı Politicians from Istanbul Boris Johnson family