Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
Bosporus from Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
Details
Location	Bebek, Istanbul
Country	Turkey
Coordinates	41°04′57″N 29°03′19″E
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 year:

• 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
• Fatma Neslişah Sultan (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
• Mina Urgan (1916–2000), academic, translator, writer and politician
• Avni Arbaş (1919–2003), painter
• Attila İlhan (1925–2005), poet, journalist
• Erdoğan Teziç (1936–2017), academic, jurist
• Nazan Erkmen (1945–2017), academic, illustrator, painter
• Yıldız Kenter (1928–2019), actress