Career
From birth, he had many problems of health and developed a deformity. Reports suggest he later died of "grief" at the news of the execution of his half-brother, Mustafa, ordered by his father, Sultan Suleiman. The Istanbul neighborhood of Cihangir was named after Şehzade Cihangir after his father had Mimar Sinan build a wooden mosque there overlooking the Bosphorus to commemorate his death.
The neighborhood"s name comes from this mosque.
In the television series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Cihangir is played by Turkish actor Tolga Sarıtaş.