Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
The Aşiyan Asri Cemetery 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, grand vezir, historian, linguist
- Tevfik Fikret, poet
- Nigâr Hanım, poet
- Ömer Fahreddin Pasha, Ottoman military leader and governor of Medina
- Orhan Veli Kanık, poet
- Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, poet
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, novelist
- Rukiye Sabiha Sultan, third daughter of Ottoman Empire's last sultan Mehmed VI and his first wife Nazikeda Kadın
- Fatma Neslişah Sultan, daughter of Princess Rukiye.
- Tevfik Rüştü Aras Minister of Foreign Affairs and diplomat
- Gündüz Kılıç football player and coach
- Münir Nurettin Selçuk, musician, tenor singer
- Tezer Özlü, writer
- Sadi Irmak, academician, prime minister
- Tarık Zafer Tunaya, lawyer, academician
- Abidin Dino, painter
- Cihat Arman, football player
- Mehmet Ali Aybar, politician
- Onat Kutlar, writer, poet, founder of Turkish Sinematek
- Mina Urgan, academic, translator, writer and politician
- Avni Arbaş, painter
- Attila İlhan, poet, journalist
- Erdoğan Teziç, academic, jurist
- Nazan Erkmen, academic, illustrator, painter
- Yıldız Kenter, actress
