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Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
The Aşiyan Asri Cemetery (Turkish: Aşiyan Asri Mezarlığı) is a burial ground situated on Aşiyan between the Bebek and Rumelihisarı neighborhoods of the European part of Istanbul, Turkey.
Bosporus from Aşiyan Asri Cemetery | |
Shown within Istanbul | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Coordinates | 41°04′57″N 29°03′19″E / 41.08250°N 29.05528°ECoordinates: 41°04′57″N 29°03′19″E / 41.08250°N 29.05528°E |
| Type | Public |
| Owned by | Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality |
| Website | İBB Mezarlıklar Md. website |
| Find a Grave | Aşiyan Asri Cemetery |
Many renowned intellectuals, writers and artists rest in this small cemetery, which has a panoramic view of the Bosporus.
Notable burials
Listed by year of death:
- Ahmet Vefik Paşa (1823–1891), grand vezir, historian, linguist
- Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), poet
- Bedia Muvahhit (1896–1994), actress
- Nigâr Hanım (1856–1918), poet
- Ömer Fahreddin Pasha (1868–1948), Ottoman (then kemalist) military leader and governor of Medina
- Orhan Veli Kanık (1914–1950), poet
- Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884–1958), poet
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901–1962), novelist
- Rukiye Sabiha Sultan (1894–1971), third daughter of Ottoman Empire's last sultan Mehmed VI and his first wife Nazikeda Kadın
- Adalet Cimcoz (1910–1970), voice actress, art curator, critic, translator, gossip columnist
- Tevfik Rüştü Aras (1883–1972) Minister of Foreign Affairs and diplomat
- Gündüz Kılıç (1919–1980) football player and coach
- Münir Nurettin Selçuk (1900–1981), musician, tenor singer
- Tezer Özlü (1943–1986), writer
- Sadi Irmak (1904–1990), academician, prime minister (1974–1975)
- Tarık Zafer Tunaya (1916–1991), lawyer, academician
- Abidin Dino (1913–1993), painter (without headstone as wished by himself)
- Cihat Arman (1919–1994), football player
- Mehmet Ali Aybar (1908–1995), politician
- Onat Kutlar (1936–1995), writer, poet, founder of Turkish Sinematek
- Mina Urgan (1916–2000), academic, translator, writer and politician
- Fatma Neslişah Sultan (1921–2002), daughter of Princess Rukiye
- Avni Arbaş (1919–2003), painter
- Attila İlhan (1925–2005), poet, journalist
- Erdoğan Teziç (1936–2017), academic, jurist
- Yıldız Kenter (1928–2019), actress
- Doğan Cüceloğlu (1938–2021), psychologist, nonfiction writer
External links
- Aşiyan Asri Cemetery at Find a Grave
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