Zincirlikuyu Cemetery

Updated on Dec 14, 2024

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Established 1935 Country Turkey Size 0.381 km (94 acres)		Location Şişli, Istanbul Type Public

Owned by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Address Esentepe Mahallesi, Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı, 34394 Şişli/İstanbul, Turkey Owner Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Burials Kemal Sunal, Müslüm Gürses, Vehbi Koç, Sadri Alışık Similar Gayrettepe, Türkiye İş Bankası Ticari Ba, Denizban Ticari Merkez Ş

The Zincirlikuyu Cemetery (Turkish: Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı) is a modern burial ground residing on the European part of Istanbul, Turkey. It is administered by the Metropolitan Municipality. Many prominent figures from the world of politics, business, sports and arts rest here.

The cemetery is located on the Büyükdere Avenue in Zincirlikuyu, Şişli district between Esentepe and Levent neighborhoods. It is Istanbul’s first cemetery established in a contemporary structure. Planned in 1935, the burial place reached in the 1950s to its boundaries of today. It has an area of 0.381 km² (94 acres), which is full, excluding family graves.

A mosque within the cemetery, built and donated by the Turkish entrepreneur İbrahim Bodur, was opened to service on April 2, 2004. The mosque is specially constructed for burial prayers, and has a capacity of 500 people.

The office of the İstanbul Cemeteries Administration is located in the building at the entrance of the cemetery.

Over the gate of the cemetery a verse from the Qur'an reminds "Her canlı ölümü tadacaktır" (English: Every living thing will taste death).

Notable burials

Listed in alphabetical order of family names:

Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906–1954), author

Yıldırım Aktuna (1930–2007), psychiatrist and politician

Zeki Alasya (1943–2015), actor and film director

Sadri Alışık (1925–1995), film actor

Cahit Aral (1927–2011), engineer and former government minister

Oğuz Aral (1936–2004), political cartoonist

Duygu Asena (1946–2006), columnist, best seller author and activist for women’s rights

Falih Rıfkı Atay (1894–1971), journalist, writer and politician

Turhan Baytop (1920–2002), botanist

Ekrem Bora (1934–2012), film actor

Behice Boran (1910–1987), Marxist sociologist, politician and author

Orhan Boran (1928–2012), comedian, radio and TV host

Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı (1869–1949), philosopher, poet and politician

Erol Büyükburç (1936–2015), pop music singer, composer and actor

İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil (1908–1993), politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Senate

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (1898–1973), poet and politician

Belgin Doruk (1936–1995), film actress

Nejat Eczacıbaşı (1913–1993), chemist and businessman

Şakir Eczacıbaşı (1929–2010), pharmacist, photographer and businessman

Çetin Emeç (1935–1990), journalist

Refik Erduran (1928–2017), playwright, columnist and writer,

Nihat Erim (1912–1980), jurist, politician and Prime minister

Muhsin Ertuğrul (1892–1979), actor and director

Defne Joy Foster (1975–2011), actress, presenter, VJ

Aysel Gürel (1929–2008), actress and lyricist

Müslüm Gürses (1953–2013), singer and actor

Vahit Melih Halefoğlu (1919–2017), politician and diplomat,

Rıfat Ilgaz (1911–1993), poet and story writer,

Ayhan Işık (1929–1979), film actor

Erdal İnönü (1926–2007), scientist and statesman

Abdi İpekçi (1929–1979), journalist and intellectuel

İsmail Cem İpekçi (1940–2007), politician, journalist and statesman

Remzi Aydın Jöntürk (1936–1987), film director, film producer, screenwriter, painter and poet

Feridun Karakaya (1928–2004), comedy actor

Refik Halit Karay (1888–1965), writer and journalist,

Ömer Kavur (1944–2005), film director, film producer and screenwriter

Orhan Kemal (1914–1970), novelist

Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015), novelist

Ali Kılıç (1889–1971), officer of the Ottoman Army, politician and army officer of the Republic of Turkey

Dündar Kılıç (1935–1999), mob boss

Lütfi Kırdar (1887–1961), Governor and Mayor of Istanbul, Minister of Health and Social Security

Vehbi Koç (1901–1996), entrepreneur and once Turkey’s wealthiest person

Mustafa Koç (1960–2016), businessman and chairman of Turkey's largest congloromerate Koç Holding

Behçet Necatigil (1916–1979), poet

Meral Okay (1959–2012), actress and screenwiter

Yaman Okay (1951–1993), actor

Ali Fethi Okyar (1880–1943), diplomat, politicani Prime minister and Speaker of the Parliament

Vedat Okyar (1945–2009), footballer and sports journalist

Gündüz Tekin Onay (1942–2008), footballer and coach of Beşiktaş J.K.

Zeki Ökten (1941–2009), film director

Coşkun Özarı (1931–2011), footballer and national team coach

Attila Özdemiroğlu (1943–2016), composer and arranger.

Halit Refiğ (1934–2009), film director, film producer and screenwriter

Mehmet Sabancı (1963–2004), businessman

Sakıp Sabancı (1933–2004), entrepreneur and Turkey’s second richest man

Hasan Saka (1885–1960), politician and Prime minister

Şükrü Saracoğlu (1887–1953) Prime minister and president of Fenerbahçe S.K.

Türkan Saylan (1935–2009), Prof. Doctor, educator

Müzeyyen Senar (1918–2015), Turkish classical music singer

Ömer Seyfettin (1884–1920), novelist

Sevgi Soysal (1936–1976), female novelist

Ruhi Su (1912–1985), folk music singer

Kemal Sunal (1944–2000), film actor and comedian

Zati Sungur (1898–1984), stage magician

Turgay Şeren (1932–2016), goalkeeper and football manager.

Naim Talu (1919–1998), economist, banker, politician and Prime minister

Safiye Ayla Targan (1907–1998), female singer

Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan (1852–1937), poet and playwright

Ahmet Kutsi Tecer (1901–1967), educator, poet and politician

Kerim Tekin (1975–1998), pop singer and actor

Talat Tunçalp (1915–2017), Olympian road cyclist,

Selçuk Uluergüven (1941–2014), theatre, film and television series actor

Nejat Uygur (1927–2013), actor, comedian

Hakkı Yeten (1910–1989), footballer and coach of Beşiktaş J.K.

References

Zincirlikuyu Cemetery Wikipedia

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