Feriköy Cemetery

The Feriköy Cemetery (Turkish: Feriköy Mezarlığı) is a burial ground situated in Feriköy quarter of Şişli district on the European part of Istanbul, Turkey.[1] It is administered by the Metropolitan Municipality. Many prominent figures from the world of politics, sports and arts rest here.

This article is about the Muslim cemetery. For the Christian cemetery, see Feriköy Protestant Cemetery.

Feriköy Cemetery

Details
Location	Feriköy, Şişli, Istanbul
Country	Turkey
Coordinates	41°02′54″N 28°58′18″E Feriköy Cemetery Feriköy Cemetery (Istanbul)
Type	Public
Owned by	Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

Notable burials

Listed in alphabetical order of surnames:

• Ahmet Ağaoğlu (1869–1939), Azerbaijani and Turkish publicist and journalist,[2]
• Çetin Alp (1947—2004), pop music singer,[3]
• Kadri Aytaç (1931–2003), football player and manager,[4]
• Mihri Belli (1915–2011), leader of the socialist movement in Turkey,[5]
• Ahmet Berman (1932-1980), footballer,[6]
• Eylül Cansın (1992-2015), transgender woman,[7]
• Keriman Halis Ece (1913–2012), beauty pageant titleholder, pianist, and fashion model,[8]
• Berkin Elvan (1999–2014), a boy, who was killed by police with a tear-gas can during the June 2013 anti-government protests in Turkey,[9]
• Feridun Buğeker (1933–2014), footballer,
• Sami Frashëri (1850–1904), Albanian writer, philosopher, playwright,
• Erol Günaydın (1933–2012), theater and film actor,[10]
• Ahmet Mete Işıkara (1941–2013), geophysicist and earthquake scientist,[11]
• Coşkun Kırca (1927–2005), diplomat, journalist and politician,[12]
• Zafer Önen (1921–2013), film actor,[13]
• Turgut Özatay (1927–2002), film actor,[14]
• Süleyman Seba (1926-2014), football player and president of the football club Beşiktaş J.K.,[15]
• Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862–1936), novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian,[16]
• Ali Sami Yen (1886–1951), sports official, founder of the football club Galatasaray,[17]

Latin quarter

• Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867-1932), international jurist of Polish descent who died in London[18]

See also

• Feriköy Protestant Cemetery

References

1. "Ne kendi tarihimizi, ne de dünya tarihini koruyabiliyoruz". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2014-08-25. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
2. "Ahmet Ağaoğlu (1869 - 19 Mayıs 1939) Feriköy Mezarlığı" (in Turkish). Yazar Mezar. Archived from the original on 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
3. "Sanatçı Çetin Alp toprağa verildi". Zaman (in Turkish). 2004-05-20. Archived from the original on 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
4. "Kadri Aytaç toprağa verildi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2003-03-31. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
5. "Mihri Belli sonsuzluğa uğurlandı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2011-08-19. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
6. "Beşiktaş eski kalecisini uğurladı". Santra Haber (in Turkish). 2014-07-18. Archived from the original on 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
7. "'Artık yapamıyorum izin vermediler'". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2015-01-06. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
8. "'Çok mutlu bir yüz yıl yaşadı'". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
9. Dağlar, Ali & Eyüp Serbest, Fırat Alkaç, İpek Yezdani, Gülden Aydın (2014-03-15). "Beş buçuk saatte uğurlandı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2015-01-13.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
10. "Erol Günaydın'a veda". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
11. "'Deprem Dede'ye son görev". Sabah (in Turkish). 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
12. "Kırca son yolculuğuna uğurlandı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2005-02-26. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
13. "Usta tiyatrocu Zafer Önen son yolculuğuna uğurlandı". Ihlas News Agency (in Turkish). 2013-12-15. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
14. "Turgut Özatay toprağa verildi". NTV (in Turkish). 2002-06-27. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
15. "Efsane başkan sonsuzluğa uğurlandı". Ihlas News Agency (in Turkish). 2014-08-15. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
16. "Fatma Aliye Hanım (9 Ekim 1862 - 13 Temmuz 1936) Feriköy Mezarlığı" (in Turkish). Yazar Mezar. Archived from the original on 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
17. "Şampiyonluk kupası Feriköy Mezarlığı'nda". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
18. Dominik, Paulina (2017). "Pour la réforme de la justice ottomane: Count Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867–1932) and His Activities in the Final Decades of the Ottoman empire". Slavia Meridionalis. 17: 1–19. doi:10.11649/sm.1441. Retrieved October 29, 2017.