Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
	Bosporus from Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
	Shown within Istanbul
Details
Location	Bebek, Istanbul
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

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.

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
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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