Funeral arrangements announced for actor Serhat Kılıç
Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
At a glance
- A memorial ceremony for actor Serhat Kılıç will be held at Istanbul’s Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage on September 7 at noon.
- Kılıç, 51, will be buried in Ankara on September 8 after a funeral prayer at Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque.
- His body was handed over to his family after an autopsy at the Forensic Medicine Institute.
A memorial ceremony for actor Serhat Kılıç will be held in Istanbul on September 7, with his burial scheduled for the following day in Ankara.
Kılıç, 51, was found dead at his home in Istanbul’s Kağıthane district. After an autopsy at the Forensic Medicine Institute, his body was handed over to his family and taken to a funeral facility at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.
It was a very sudden loss. We are deeply saddened.
His manager, Tolga Çinkitaş, announced that the memorial would begin at noon at the Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage. “It was a very sudden loss. We are deeply saddened,” Çinkitaş said, adding that people who loved Kılıç had been sending the family messages.
The funeral prayer will take place at Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque in Ankara on September 8, after which Kılıç will be buried in the city. Çinkitaş invited the actor’s friends to attend the Istanbul memorial.
We are expecting all his friends here.
Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.