Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

233px Bosporus from Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
Shown within Istanbul
Details
Location	Bebek, Istanbul
Country	Turkey
Coordinates
Type	Public
Owned by	Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Website	İBB Mezarlıklar Md. website

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), female 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
• 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