The Cebeci Asri Cemetery (Turkish: Cebeci Asri Mezarlığı) is a cemetery located in the Cebeci quarter of central Ankara, Turkey serving multiple religions. It was the first modern burial place in the capital city. Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. ... Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Ä°stanbul. ...

As of 2005, the total number of graves in the Cebeci Asri Cemetery was 220,000, with 121,000 for males and 99,000 for females. The burial rate was two per day. Administered by the municipality, it is the second largest cemetery in Ankara after Karşıyaka Cemetery.^[1]

Locating graves

In 2000, the Metropolitan Municipality of Ankara completed an information system (MEBİS) allowing visitors to search and locate a given person's grave within the three main cemeteries of Ankara. Computer terminals in interactive kiosks placed at the entrance of the cemetery enable visitors to quickly find the location of their relatives' graves. The system also shows the shortest path to graves on a cemetary plan.^[2] A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. ... An Internet kiosk with a touchscreen in Vienna, Austria in 2005 An Info Kiosk with a touchscreen in Turkey in 2005 An Interactive kiosk is a computer terminal that provides information access via electronic methods. ...

Improper burials

Most graves in the cemetery have an east-west alignment so that the Muslims can be buried facing east towards Mecca in accordance with Islamic law; but members of other religious groups such as Wahhabis, Jews and Christians are buried in Cebeci Asri Cemetery with a north-south orientation. Recently, however, a member of the public discovered that about ten thousand Muslims are buried with the incorrect north-south alignment. Wahhabism (Arabic: الوهابية, Wahabism, Wahabbism, Whahhabism) is a term used to describe a movement of Sunni Islam based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703–1792). ... Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant (see Hebrews 8:6). ...

The director of cemeteries in Ankara announced that the mistake made 15 years ago can no longer be corrected.^[3] Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, the country's highest Islamic institution, supported this determination, ruling that correction of the orientation of the graves would be disrespectful to the dead, and therefore unnecessary.^[4] The Diyanet Ä°ÅŸleri Bakanlığı (en: Presidency of Religious Affairs) is the highest, islamic, religious authority in Turkey. ...

Notables in the cemetery

• Makbule Atadan - Sister of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
• Kerim Afşar (1930-2003) - Actor ^[5]
• Erkut Akbay ( ? - 1982) - Diplomat assassinated along with his wife Nadide, by a car bomb at the Turkish Embassy in Lisbon in 1982 ^[6]
• Savaş Başar - Actor , famous as the voice-over of Lieutenant Columbo in Turkish
• Osman Bölükbaşı (1913 - 2002) - Politician
• Çetin Emeç - Assassinated journalist
• Kemal Özay Gönlüm - Folk singer
• Mevhibe İnönü (1897 - 1992) - Wife of the second President İsmet İnönü
• Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1880 - 1974) - Writer
• Uğur Mumcu (1942 - 1993) - Assassinated journalist ^[7]
• Mammed Amin Rasulzade, founding leader of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
• Baykal Saran (1937 - 2006) - Actor
• Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910 - 1956) - Poet ^[8]
• Mustafa Rüştü Taşar (1951 - 2007) - Politician and former government minister
• Bahriye Üçok (1919 - 1990) - Assassinated journalist
• Savaş Yurttaş (1944 - 2002) - Actor
• Hasan Ali Yucel (1897 - 1961) - Poet, politician and former government minister ^[9]

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