Feriköy Cemetery Explained

Feriköy Cemetery
Country:	Turkey
Location:	Feriköy, Şişli, Istanbul
Coordinates:	41.0483°N 28.9717°W
Type:	Public
Owner:	Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

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

Notable burials

Listed in alphabetical order of surnames:

Albay Mehmet Şefik Aker (1877/1888-1964)

• Ahmet Ağaoğlu (1869–1939), Azerbaijani and Turkish publicist and journalist,
• Ayseli Göksoy (1935–2022), painter, women's rights activist and politician,^[1]
• Çetin Alp (1947–2004), pop music singer,
• Kadri Aytaç (1931–2003), football player and manager,
• Mihri Belli (1915–2011), leader of the socialist movement in Turkey,
• Ahmet Berman (1932–1980), footballer,
• Eylül Cansın (1992–2015), transgender woman,
• Suat Derviş (1905–1972), female novelist, journalist, and political activist,
• Keriman Halis Ece (1913–2012), beauty pageant titleholder, pianist, and fashion model,
• 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,
• Faize Ergin (1894–1954), Tanbur player and composer of Ottoman classical music,
• Feridun Buğeker (1933–2014), footballer,
• Sami Frashëri (1850–1904), Albanian writer, philosopher, playwright,
• Erol Günaydın (1933–2012), theater and film actor,
• Oya Kayacık (1938–2020), Turkish philanthropist, orphanage woman nurse,^[2]
• Ahmet Mete Işıkara (1941–2013), geophysicist and earthquake scientist,
• Coşkun Kırca (1927–2005), diplomat, journalist and politician,
• Zafer Önen (1921–2013), film actor,
• Turgut Özatay (1927–2002), film actor,
• Süleyman Seba (1926–2014), football player and president of the football club Beşiktaş J.K.,
• Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862–1936), novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian,
• Ali Sami Yen (1886–1951), sports official, founder of the football club Galatasaray,
• Khalil bey Khasmammadov, (1873–1947) Azerbaijani politician and diplomat.^[3]

Latin quarter

• Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867–1932), international jurist of Polish descent who died in London^[4]

See also

• Feriköy Protestant Cemetery

Notes and References

1. News: Sözcü Bugünkü Vefat (Ölüm) – Başsağlığı – Anma – Teşekkür – Mevlit İlanları-27 Kasım 2022 . . 27 November 2022 . tr . 8 February 2024 .
2. News: Bu dünyadan kimsesiz çocukların 'Oya Annesi' geçti . . Çalık Göçümlü, Burcu . 4 December 2020 . tr . 28 January 2021 .
3. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170710085445/http://www.justice.gov.az/museum.php . AZƏRBAYCAN ƏDLİYYƏSİNİN TARİXİ MUZEYİ . 2017-07-10 . 2022-01-24 . bot: unknown .
4. 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 . 10.11649/sm.1441 . October 29, 2017 . free .