 According to the "New York Times", historians said that the show of reverence at the funeral of Imperial Prince Ertuğrul Osman in September 2009 was a "seminal moment in the rehabilitation of the Ottoman Empire".An interview with Imperial Prince Mahmud by the Anatolian News Agency was published in several publications in Turkey and the UK.A Sultan's descendant in the heart of London

Without exception, all high-ranking members of the Imperial Ottoman family were exiled in 1924.