Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery

There is however no historical or archaeological evidence for this, the oldest known graves date from ca.

[citation needed] The cemetery is situated outside Edirnekapı (literally: Edirne Gate), historically the Gate of Charisius of the city walls, on top of the sixth hill of the old city.

[1] The old part of the cemetery, including an area called "Mısır Tarlası" (literally: Corn Field), hosts graves of personalities from the 16th to the early 20th centuries.

The General Command of Mapping denotes the number of such historical graves with around 13,000.

[1] Military personnel of the Turkish Army, Navy and Air Force, personnel of the police force, firefighters and Turkish Airlines have all separate sections in the cemetery.

The Monument of World War I Martyrs ( Turkish : Harb-i Umumi Şehitler Abidesi ), to commemorate the fallen Ottoman soldiers at the Gallipoli campaign , naugurated on August 30, 1926, at the entrance of the cemetery.
Symbolic empty graves of Ottoman soldiers fallen during the Gallipoli campaign of World War I .
Grave of Mehmet Akif Ersoy , the author of the Turkish National Anthem .