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Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

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Location
  
Bebek, Istanbul

Type
  
Public

Country
  
Turkey

Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

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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