Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

The Aşiyan Asri Cemetery (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 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 (1921–2002), daughter of Princess Sabiha,
 * Avni Arbaş (1919–2003), painter,
 * Attila İlhan (1925–2005), poet, journalist,
 * Necla Sultan (1926–2006), Ottoman princess,|work=Gazetevatan|date=17
 * 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,