Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

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Location Bebek, Istanbul Type Public		Country Turkey

Owned by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Website İBB Mezarlıklar Md. website Address Rumeli Hisarı, 34470 Sarıyer/İstanbul, Turkey Owner Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Burials Orhan Veli Kanık, Tevfik Fikret, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı Similar Asiyan Museum, Karacaah Cemetery, Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı, Grand Asiyan Hotel, Ermeni Mezarlığı

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 in order of death years:

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

HH HIH Princess Rukiye Sabiha Sultan Hanım Efendi (1894-1971), third daughter of Ottoman Empire's last sultan Mehmed VI from his first wife

HH HIH Princess Fatma Neslişah Sultan Hanım Efendi (1921-2002), daughter of Princess Rukiye.

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

Avni Arbaş (1919-2003), painter

Attila İlhan (1925-2005), poet, journalist

References

Aşiyan Asri Cemetery Wikipedia

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