Haydarpaşa Cemetery

Haydarpasa English Cemetery sits on a slope above the Asian side of the Bosphorus in Uesksuedar and was laid out in 1855 for British soldiers killed in the Crimean War. Sultan Abdulmecid I granted the land to the United Kingdom, and it remains extraterritorial British property to this day. Roughly six thousand British, French and allied soldiers are buried here, many of them victims not of battle but of cholera and typhus contracted in the catastrophic conditions Florence Nightingale began to reform at the nearby Selimiye Barracks hospital. Commonwealth dead from both world wars were added later. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission still tends the quiet rows of cypresses and marble obelisks; from the upper edge ferries can be seen crossing the Bosphorus below.