Mehmed Abdülkerim Efendi

Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim Efendi was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Selim and Nilüfer Hanım. He was the grandson of Abdul Hamid II and Bedrifelek Kadın. In the last few years of his life he was endorsed by the Japanese, who counted on his prestige as an Ottoman prince, to instigate a rebellion by local Turkic Muslims in East Turkestan against the Chinese government. After the failure of the uprising and being abandoned by his Japanese sponsors, Abdülkerim went into exile in the United States, and committed suicide in New York in 1935.