Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
The Bosporus from Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
Interactive map of 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.

This small cemetery, which has a panoramic view of the Bosporus, is the final resting place of many renowned intellectuals, writers and artists.

Notable burials

Listed in ascending order:

19th century

• Ahmet Vefik Paşa (1823–1891), grand vezir, historian, linguist

20th century

• Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), poet
• Nigâr Hanım (1856–1918), poet
• Ziya Songülen (1886–1936), founder and first president of Fenerbahçe Sports Club
• Ömer Fahreddin Pasha (1868–1948), Ottoman military leader and governor of Medina
• Orhan Veli Kanık (1914–1950), poet
• Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884–1958), poet
• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901–1962), novelist
• Ulviye Sultan (1892–1967), Ottoman princess
• Rukiye Sabiha Sultan (1894–1971), third daughter of Ottoman Empire's last sultan Mehmed VI and his first wife Nazikeda Kadın
• Adalet Cimcoz (1910–1970), voice actress, art curator, critic, translator, gossip columnist
• Hilmi Ziya Ülken (1901–1974), scholar and writer
• 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
• Curt Kosswig (1903–1982), German zoology and genetics professor
• 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)
• Bedia Muvahhit (1896–1994), actress
• Cihat Arman (1919–1994), football player
• Mehmet Ali Aybar (1908–1995), politician
• Onat Kutlar (1936–1995), writer, poet, founder of Turkish Sinematek
• Hanzade Sultan (1923–1998), Ottoman princess

21st century

• Mîna Urgan (1916–2000), academic, translator, writer and politician,
• Fatma Neslişah Sultan (1921–2012), daughter of Princess Sabiha,
• Avni Arbaş (1919–2003), painter,
• Attila İlhan (1925–2005), poet, journalist,
• Necla Sultan (1926–2006), Ottoman princess,
• Feyyaz Berker (1925–2017), businessman,
• Erdoğan Teziç (1936–2017), academic, jurist,
• Güngör Uras (1933–2018), economist, journalist and author,
• Yıldız Kenter (1928–2019), actress,
• Doğan Cüceloğlu (1938–2021), psychologist, nonfiction writer,
• Tarhan Erdem (1933–2022), politician,
• İlhan İrem (1955–2022), singer,
• Ziya Şengül (1944–2023), footballer,
• Ayla Algan (1937–2024), actress,
• Filiz Akın (1943-2025), film actress