Çankaya Köşkü
Çankaya may refer to: * Çankaya District, a district and municipality of Ankara Province, Turkey * Çankaya, Ankara (neighbourhood), a neighbourhood in Çankaya District, Ankara Province, Turkey * Çankaya, İzmir, a neighbourhood in Konak district of İzmir, Turkey ** Çankaya (İzmir Metro), an underground station on the Üçyol-Bornova Line * Çankaya Mansion, a presidential palace of Turkey * Çankaya University Çankaya University () is a private university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on July 9, 1997, by the Sıtkı Alp Education Foundation. The university began its teaching in the Fall 1997 semester. Sıtkı Alp is the chairman of the bo ...

Çankaya District
Çankaya is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 483 km2, and its population is 942,553 (2022). It is home to many government buildings, including the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, as well as nearly all foreign embassies to Turkey. Çankaya is a cosmopolitan district and considered the cultural and financial center of Ankara. History Until the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, Çankaya was a hillside of orchards and gardens to the south of the city, which had grown up in time, surrounding the Ankara Castle (Kale) on the opposite hill. Everything changed in the 1920s when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk came to stay in one of the garden houses. Atatürk selected Ankara as capital of the new republic and in the 1920s and 30s the city quickly grew, especially in the direction of Çankaya. In 1934 the writer Yakup Kadri KaraosmanoÄŸlu described the area as "''a wooden bridge, a dirt road, and when you come round the hill ...
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