Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality increased cemetery plot fees by 60%

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Council's third session of the December meeting was held at the municipal building in Saraçhane under the chairmanship of the 1st Vice President of the Assembly, Nuri Aslan. The 2025 cemetery fees and service charges were discussed at the meeting. According to the tariff approved unanimously by the council, services such as washing room, wooden coffin, funeral shroud, funeral burial procedures, and out-of-town transfers will continue to be provided free of charge. The coffin burial fee increased from 740 lira to 1184 lira, brick coffin from 1850 lira to 3700 lira, burial site transfer without a grave fee from 3730 lira to 5968 lira, single-storey brick coffin grave from 4820 lira to 9240 lira, double-storey brick coffin grave from 6170 lira to 12340 lira. The cemetery site fees varied by group. In the first group including Karacaahmet, Nakkaştepe, Çengelköy 1st Section, Zincirlikuyu, Aşiyan, Nafibaba, Ulus, and Abide-i Hürriyet, the site fee increased from 11,190 lira to 17,904 lira. The empty space fee next to the deceased increased from 34,890 lira to 55,824 lira, the empty grave site fee increased by 60% from 69,770 lira to 111,632 lira, and the site fee for children's funerals increased from 11,190 lira to 17,904 lira.