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The Zincirlikuyu Cemetery (Turkish:
Zincirlikuyu
Mezarlığı) is a modern burial ground at the European part of Istanbul, Turkey. It is administered by the Metropolitan
Municipality. Many prominent figures from the world of politics,
business, sports and arts rest here.
The cemetery is located in the Şişli district between Esentepe and Levent neighborhoods. It is
Istanbul’s first cemetery established in a contemporary structure.
Planned in 1935, the burial place reached in the 1950s to its
boundaries of today. It has an area of 0.381 km2
(94 acres), which is completely full, excluding family graves.
A mosque within the
cemetery, built and donated by the Turkish entrepreneur İbrahim
Bodur, was opened to service on April 2, 2004. Designed by
architect Alidost Ertuğrul, the mosque is specially constructed for
burial prays, and has a capacity of 500 people.[1]
The office of the İstanbul Cemeteries Administration is located
in the building at the entrance of the cemetery.
Over the gate of the cemetery a verse from the Qur'an reminds "Her canlı ölümü
tadacaktır" (English: Every living thing will taste
death).[2]
Notable
burials
Listed in alphabetical order of family names:
- Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906-1954),
writer
- Yıldırım Aktuna (1930-2007),
psychiatrist and politician
- Sadri Alışık (1925-1995), film actor
- Oğuz Aral
(1936-2004), political cartoonist
- Duygu Asena
(1946-2006), columnist, best seller author and activist for women’s
rights
- Turhan
Baytop (1920-2002), botanist
- Behice Boran
(1910–1987), Marxist sociologist, politician and author
- Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı
(1869-1949), philosopher, poet and politician
- İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil
(1908-1993), politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman
of the Senate
- Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (1898-1973),
poet and politician
- Belgin Doruk
(1936–1995), film actress
- Nihat Erim
(1912-1980), jurist, politician and Prime minister
- Muhsin
Ertuğrul (1892-1979), actor and director
- Aysel Gürel
(1929-2008), actress and lyricist[3]
- Rıfat Ilgaz
(1911-1993), poet and story writer
- Ayhan
Işık (1929-1979), film actor
- Erdal
İnönü (1926-2007), scientist and statesman
- Abdi
İpekçi (1929-1979), journalist and intellectuel
- İsmail Cem İpekçi (1940-2007), politician,
journalist and statesman
- Ömer Kavur
(1944-2005), film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Orhan Kemal
(1914-1970), novelist
- Dündar Kılıç (1935-1999), mob boss
- Vehbi Koç
(1901-1996), entrepreneur and Turkey’s richest man
- Behçet Necatigil (1916-1979),
poet
- Ali Fethi
Okyar (1880-1943), diplomat, politicani Prime minister and
Speaker of the Parliament
- Gündüz Tekin Onay (1942-2008),
footballer and coach of Beşiktaş J.K.
- Zeki Ökten
(1941-2009), film director
- Halit Refiğ
(1934-2009), film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Mehmet
Sabancı (1963-2004), businessman
- Sakıp
Sabancı (1933-2004), entrepreneur and Turkey’s second richest
man
- Hasan Saka
(1885–1960), politician and Prime minister
- Şükrü Saracoğlu (1887-1953) Prime
minister and president of Fenerbahçe S.K.
- Türkan
Saylan (1935-2009), Prof. Doctor, educator
- Ömer
Seyfettin (1884-1920), novelist
- Ruhi Su (1912-1985),
folk music singer
- Kemal Sunal
(1944-2000), film actor and comedian
- Naim Talu
(1818-1889), economist, banker, politician and Prime minister
- Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan
(1852-1937), poet and playwright
- Ahmet
Kutsi Tecer (1901-1957), educator, poet and politician
- Hakkı Yeten
(1910-1989), footballer and coach of Beşiktaş
J.K.
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