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34-463: He was the only child of Mehmet İbrahim Karaca, a theatre actor of Azerbaijani origin, and İrma Felekyan , a popular opera, theatre, and movie actress of Armenian origin. His first group was called Dynamites and was a classic rock cover band. Later he joined Jaguars , an Elvis Presley cover band. In 1967, he started to write his own music, joining the band Apaşlar (The Rowdies), his first Turkish language group. The same year, he participated in

68-469: A big city out of these gravestones." The famous Danish writer and master of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen , who was impressed by its size during his visit to Istanbul in 1841, just 5 years after Moltke, described the Karacaahmet cemetery, as if confirming Moltke: “The area of this cemetery is so vast that if sow wheat, it would feed the whole city, and if all the local tombstones were used, then

102-693: A new album with it, Merhaba Gençler ve Her Zaman Genç Kalanlar (" Hello, The Young and The Young at Heart "), one of his most influential works. His return home was received cheerfully by his fans, but during his absence Karaca had lost the young audience and acquired only a few new listeners. He died of a heart attack on February 8, 2004, and was interred at Karacaahmet Cemetery in the Üsküdar district of Istanbul. Azerbaijanis in Turkey Azerbaijanis in Turkey are Turkish citizens and permanent residents of ethnic Azerbaijani background. It

136-441: A new wall could be built that would surround Istanbul." As if in unanimous agreement, Western travelers and writers have argued that the cemetery does not receive much sunlight, because it is covered with cypresses, and looks like a forest in dark greenery. This is one of the rare cemeteries for which poetry has been written in history. The oldest photographs of the cemetery were taken by Ernest de Caranza in 1852–1854, followed by

170-553: Is difficult to determine the exact number of ethnic Azerbaijanis currently residing in Turkey since the Turkish government is known to be repressive towards other ethnicities. According to some estimates, there are currently around 800,000 Twelver Shias in Turkey, however this figure may differ substantially from the real one. There are up to 4,500,000 Azerbaijani citizens who reside in Turkey, according to information provided by

204-483: Is simply calling citizens to a bloody war against the state." Dervişan was ultimately dissolved at the end of 1977. In 1978, he founded Edirdahan , an acronym for "from Edirne to Ardahan "; the westernmost and the easternmost provinces of Turkey. He recorded one LP with Edirdahan called " Safinaz ". In early 1979, Karaca left for Cologne , West Germany for business reasons. In 1980 he began singing in German with

238-521: Is situated within the cemetery. There are also many other historical tombs and masjids , which is the Arabic word for mosques, built during the Ottoman period. The cemetery, which began to expand in parallel with the increase in the Turkish population during the reign of Sultan Murad I , expanded further after the conquest of Istanbul in 1453. Karacaahmet was officially turned into a cemetery in 1582 by

272-476: The 1980 Turkish coup d'état on September 12, 1980. General Kenan Evren took over the government and temporarily banned all the nation's political parties. After the coup, many intellectuals, including writers, artists and journalists, were arrested. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Karaca by the government of Turkey. The state invited Karaca back several times, but Karaca, not knowing what would happen upon his return, decided not to come back. While Karaca

306-486: The Golden Microphone ( Turkish : Altın Mikrofon ) contest, a popular music contest in which he won second place with his song Emrah . In 1969, Karaca and bass-player Serhan Karabay left Apaşlar and started an original Anatolian group called Kardaşlar (The Brothers). In 1972, Karaca joined the group Moğollar (The Mongols) and wrote one of his best-known songs, " Namus Belası ". However, Cahit Berkay ,

340-1187: The Ottoman Empire in the Second Ottoman–Safavid War . In addition, in the early nineteenth century, several Sunni families from Shirvan , particularly from Agsu , settled in Amasya , where for a long time they were known as Şirvanlı . In 1894, a unique baroque -style mosque was built here by Şeyh Hacı Mahmut Efendi. The mosque has been known as the Şirvanlı Mosque or the Azerîler Mosque. The descendants of those migrants nowadays live in six villages of Amasya's Suluova and Merzifon districts and have preserved their Azerbaijani identity and culture. Another group of Azerbaijanis from Shaki relocated to Bursa in 1863. The next wave of Azerbaijani immigration to eastern Turkey took place in 1918–1925, when many Muslim residents of then newly independent Armenia fled their homes, escaping massacres by armed bands of Armenian nationalists. In 1941, already 5,000 Azerbaijanis lived in 60 villages along

374-610: The Ottoman Turkish alphabet , a version of the Arabic alphabet. The total number of burials is not known precisely, because no records were kept in the past, but it is estimated in millions. Because the burial registers of the Istanbul Cemeteries Directorate started to be kept only after 1937. The shrine of Karaca Ahmet Sultan , a 13th-century physician and saint of Bektashis , a tariqah of Islam,

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408-626: The Peoples' Democratic Party , another ethnic Azerbaijani, was elected to represent the same province. Karacaahmet Cemetery The Karacaahmet Cemetery ( Turkish : Karacaahmet Mezarlığı ) is a 700-year-old historic cemetery located in Üsküdar , on the Asian side of Istanbul . Karacaahmet cemetery is the oldest and largest in Istanbul at 750 acres (3.0 km ), and the largest burial ground in Turkey by number of interred. The cemetery

442-608: The Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency . Despite having undergone major assimilation in their language and religious beliefs, they still identify themselves as Karabağlı and are viewed as a distinct group by the local population. A different branch of the same group settled in Iğdır . Caferoğlu argues that the Afyon group may have left Karabakh for Turkey much earlier, in 1578, fighting for

476-745: The Turkish Ministry of the Interior , between 2003 and 2013 alone over 15,000 immigrants from Azerbaijan received Turkish citizenship. In addition, as of 2019, there were 36,543 citizens of Azerbaijan residing in Turkey. The Terekeme people are often considered a sub-ethnic group of Azerbaijanis of Sunni Muslim background. In general, the Azerbaijani population in Turkey is considered well-integrated into Turkish society, mainly due to cultural and linguistic affinities between Azerbaijanis and Turks. Nevertheless, differences still remain in

510-551: The Azerbaijani language. Phonemic analyses indicate that Azerbaijani-influenced dialects are spoken as far as Elâzığ and Van 's Erciş district. In 1813, a group of Azerbaijanis from Karabakh settled in Aziziye , in the northern part of the Afyon Province . Today their descendants live in the villages of Büyük Karabağ and Orta Karabağ and have recently reestablished cultural ties with their historical homeland through

544-575: The Diaspora Committee of Azerbaijan, although the factual accuracy of this figure is disputed. They are currently the second ethnic group in the city of Iğdır and second largest ethnic group in Kars , where they constitute majority in the district of Akyaka ( Azerbaijani : Şörəyel ). Azerbaijanis first settled in what is now Turkey during the period of Safavi governance over Kars and neighbouring areas. Their numbers grew during

578-651: The East. In addition, the Polish Count Edward Raczyński in 1814 in his book “Journey to Istanbul and Canakkale” and the German Generalfeldmarschall Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke in his book “Letters from Turkey” gave a large place to the Karacaahmet cemetery. Calculating that the underground population of Karacaahmet far exceeds the living population of Istanbul, Marshal Moltke said in 1836: "You can build

612-648: The Turkish bank of the Arpaçay . They were followed by former members of the overthrown government of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan and their families, as well as many upper-class Azerbaijanis, who fled to Turkey in fear of persecution by the Bolsheviks and settled primarily in Istanbul , Bursa and Ankara . Together with other political immigrants from the Caucasus and led by members of

646-511: The Turkish side of the Soviet border. Iranian Azerbaijanis have emigrated and resettled in large numbers in Istanbul , and many Iranian Azerbaijani students who came to study in Turkey have stayed there after the completion of their studies. Finally, starting from the early 1990s tens of thousands of immigrants from the newly independent Azerbaijan have made their way to Turkey due to economic reasons, settling mostly in big cities. According to

680-459: The areas of religion (Azerbaijanis are mainly Shi'a , whereas Turks are mostly Sunni ), dialect, and self-conception in terms of historical memory and ethnic/national consciousness. In 2011, Sinan Oğan , an ethnic Azerbaijani and a diaspora activist from Iğdır, won a seat in the Turkish parliament as a Nationalist Movement Party candidate. Following the June 2015 election , Kıznaz Türkeli from

714-662: The brothers Abdullah, Bergren and Photo Sabah. The Anglican clergyman Robert Walsh , who had been the personal chaplain to the British ambassador Lord Strangford in Istanbul since 1820, compared the place to a large forest divided by wide roads on sloping ground. The scene he depicts was engraved by the English artist Thomas Allom . The excavation works in the tunnel for the Marmaray project caused little damage as by June 2007,

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748-565: The cemetery of Karacaahmet Sultan in 1698, is also "Usküdar Mekabir-i Muslimini". This cemetery, which was originally an empty, vast and clean ground, has always been a favorite place for the people of Istanbul for centuries and has served as a burial ground without interruption since its foundation. The famous English poet Lord Byron included Üsküdar and the Karacaahmet cemetery in the following lines: «O Scutari! Your white houses look at thousands of graves, and above these graves rises that evergreen tree, that tender and dark cypress, inscribed in

782-499: The deposed democratic government of Azerbaijan such as Rasulzadeh , Khasmammadov and Sultanov , some of them engaged in anti-Soviet political propaganda and activities in Turkey in an attempt to restore the independence of the Bolshevik-occupied Caucasus states. The signing of Soviet-Turkish non-aggression pacts in 1925 and 1935 created obstacles in continuing this activity in the form of arrests and bans on

816-552: The first half of the nineteenth century, when following the Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) , the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) and the respectively out coming Gulistan and Turkmenchay treaties between Persia and Russia , Persia was forced to cede sovereignty over the khanates of Karabakh (1813), Nakhchivan (1828) and Erivan (1828), among others to Russia, and the Treaty of Adrianople gave Christians and Muslims

850-422: The foliage of eternal sorrow, like unrequited love». The cemetery has fascinated foreign travelers for centuries with its impressive view and architectural splendor, and many travelers have mentioned this cemetery in their memoirs. The French poet and writer Theophile Gautier , who was one of the first to describe the cemetery in his memoir, expressed his admiration, saying that Karacaahmet is the largest cemetery in

884-400: The leader of Moğollar, wanted an international reputation for his band, and he left for France to take the group to the next level. Karaca, who wanted to continue his Anatolian beat sound, left Moğollar and started his own band Dervişan (Dervishes) in 1974. Karaca and Dervişan sang poetic and progressive songs. In the 1970s, Turkey was dealing with political violence between supporters of

918-420: The left and the right, separatist movements and the rise of Islamism . As the country fell into chaos, the government suspected Cem Karaca of involvement in rebel organisations. He was accused of treason for being a separatist thinker and a Marxist-Leninist . The Turkish government tried to portray Karaca as a man who was unknowingly writing songs to start a revolution. One politician was quoted as saying, "Karaca

952-406: The mother of Murad III and Selim II 's wife, Nurbanu Sultan , who donated 124 hectares of land from her own property for a city cemetery and ordered the cypress trees to be planted there. In addition, she appointed 13 guards for the preservation of these cypress trees and 24 people as gravediggers for the burial of dead. The name of the cemetery, which was first mentioned in official sources as

986-477: The publishing of anti-Soviet periodicals. This forced some politically active members of the movement to relocate to Germany and Poland by the late 1930s. After the failure of the USSR-created regional Azerbaijan People's Government in 1946, ethnic Azerbaijani political immigrants from Iran increased the numbers of Azerbaijanis in Turkey. By 1990, about 400,000 Azerbaijanis lived in a belt of land on

1020-592: The right to choose a place of residence between Russia and Turkey. Similarly to those of the North Caucasus , large groups of local Muslim population refused to live within Russian boundaries and migrated to Turkey (or Iran ) settling in its eastern regions, especially in the Şenkaya district of Erzurum and the Taşlıçay district of Ağrı . The Turkish dialect of Erzurum has been grammatically influenced by

1054-467: The song Nazim Hikmet - Kız Çocuğu ( Little girl ): Cem performed the German verses alternating with his best friend, manager, producer, arranger and bandleader/bass player/keyboarder/drummer, guitar player Ralf Mähnhöfer accompanying him on grand piano , solo or with the band Anatology , singing the song in the Turkish language . Turkey continued to spin out of control with military curfews and

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1088-574: Was declared a natural protected area and national historical landmark site in 1991, in accordance with the decision of the Istanbul Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board. According to this decision, the cemetery area can only be used for burial of the dead, the cemetery cannot be removed or used as a park area in any way. Karacaahmet Cemetery comprises 12 parcels, each dedicated to different religious groups. Many historical headstones can still be seen with inscriptions written in

1122-553: Was in Germany his father died, but he could not return to attend the funeral. After some time, the Turkish government decided to strip Cem Karaca of his Turkish citizenship, keeping the arrest warrant active. Several years later, in 1987, the prime minister and leader of the Turkish Motherland Party , Turgut Özal , issued an amnesty for Karaca. Shortly afterwards, he returned to Turkey. His return also brought

1156-444: Was named after a warrior companion of Orhan , the second Ottoman sultan and is believed to have been founded in the mid-14th century. Karacaahmet Cemetery, which hosts many bird species, looks like a forest with trees such as cypress , plane tree , oak , laurel , hackberry , and various other plants. The burial ground is covered by high cypress trees. As a 700-year-old burial ground of historical importance, Karacaahmet Cemetery

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