Karşıyaka Cemetery
Three Turkish revolutionary student leaders remembered on 46th anniversary of execution
People gathered on May 6 in Ankara's Karşıyaka Cemetery to commemorate Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan, three student leaders executed in 1972 for attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, on the 46th anniversary of their death.
Turkey's first female minister Türkan Akyol dies aged 89
Türkan Akyol, who was the country's first female minister and university rector, died in the capital Ankara on Sept. 7. She was 89.
Professor Akyol, an academic and politician, had been receiving treatment at Hacettepe University Hospital for a while.
Akyol will be laid to rest in the Karşıyaka Cemetery in Ankara on Sept. 8.