Çankaya is a municipality and

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

Ankara Province Ankara Province (, ) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey with the capital city Ankara. Its area is 25,632 km2, and its population is 5,782,285 (2022). History The site of the modern city has been home to settlements ...

, Turkey. Its area is 483 km², and its population is 942,553 (2022). It is home to many government buildings, including the

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, 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

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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 Ankara Castle () is a historic fortification in the city of Ankara, Turkey, constructed in or after the 7th century. The earliest fortification on the site was constructed in the 8th century BC by the Phrygians and rebuilt in 278 BC by the Gala ...

(Kale) on the opposite hill. Everything changed in the 1920s when

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

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 Karaosmanoğlu Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (also rendered Yakub Kadri; ; 27 March 1889 – 13 December 1974) was a Turkish novelist, journalist, diplomat, and member of parliament.Edebiyatogretmeni.net ''Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu'' Google translated' Biograp ...

described the area as "''a wooden bridge, a dirt road, and when you come round the hill you see a hillside, green in gentle contours. That's Çankaya''." Çankaya eventually developed into one of the largest central districts of Ankara in later years.

Demographics

The population of Çankaya is close to 1 million in 2022.

Climate

The climate in Çankaya is cold and temperate. The winter months are much rainier than the summer months in Çankaya. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is Dsa. The average annual temperature in Çankaya is 11.5 °C. In a year, the average rainfall is 384 mm.

Culture

The early buildings of the republic were in grand Ottoman style, but today Çankaya also contains a number of impressive modern buildings. The district is home to a great number of museums, theatres, cinemas, cultural associations, booksellers, publishers and libraries, including the National Library in a new building. Many of the streets in the district are named after poets, writers and thinkers. Most of Ankara's best-known high schools and a great number of university buildings are in the district, including the large campuses of

METU Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a prestigious public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. As Turkey’s top ranked university, they focus on r ...

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

and (most of)

Hacettepe University Hacettepe University () is a public research university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by University Ranking by Academic Performance in 2021. The university has two main c ...

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 ...

, a private institution owned by businessman Sıtkı Alp, was opened in a number of former school buildings in 1997.

Composition

There are 124

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in Çankaya District: * 100.Yıl * 50.Yıl * Ahlatlıbel * Akarlar * Akpınar * Alacaatlı * Anıttepe * Arka Topraklık * Aşağı Dikmen * Aşağı Imrahor * Aşağı Öveçler * Aşıkpaşa * Ata * Aydınlar * Ayrancı * Aziziye * Bademlidere * Bağcılar *

Bahçelievler Bahçelievler (meaning "houses with gardens" in Turkish) is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 17 km2 (0.3% of Istanbul Province), and its population is 594,350 (2022). It is a large middle class residen ...

* Balgat * Barbaros * Bayraktar * Beytepe * Birlik * Boztepe * Büyükesat * Çamlıtepe * Çankaya * Çavuşlu *

Çayyolu Çayyolu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çankaya District, Çankaya, Ankara Province, Turkey. Its population is 6,695 (2022). Location and history Çayyolu is situated to the west of Hacettepe University#Campusus#Beytepe C ...

* Cebeci * Cevizlidere * Çiğdem * Çukurambar * Cumhuriyet * Devlet * Dilekler * Dodurga * Doğuş * Ehlibeyt * Emek * Ertuğrulgazi * Erzurum * Esatoğlu * Eti * Evciler * Fakülteler * Fidanlık *

Gaziosmanpaşa Gaziosmanpaşa (; old name: ''Taşlıtarla'') is a developing working class municipality ( belediye) and district of Istanbul, Turkey, on its European side. Its area is 12 km2, and its population is 495,998 (2022). Esenler and Bayrampaşa a ...

* Gökkuşağı * Göktürk * Güvenevler * Güzeltepe * Harbiye * Hilal * Huzur * İleri * İlkadım * İlkbahar * İlker * İncesu * İşçi Blokları * Karahasanlı * Karapınar * Karataş * Kavaklıdere * Kazım Özalp * Keklik Pınarı * Kırkkonaklar * Kızılay * Kızılırmak * Kocatepe * Kömürcü * Konutkent * Korkutreis * Koru * Küçükesat * Kültür * Malazgirt * Maltepe * Mebusevleri * Meşrutiyet * Metin Akkuş * Metin Oktay * Mimar Sinan * Muhsin Ertuğrul * Murat * Mürsel Uluç * Mustafa Kemal * Mutlukent * Naci Çakır * Namık Kemal * Nasuh Akar * Oğuzlar * Ön Cebeci * Oran * Orta Imrahor * Osman Temiz * Öveçler * Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taner Kışlalı * Remzi Oğuz Arık * Sağlık * Sancak * Şehit Cengiz Karaca * Şehit Cevdet Özdemir * Seyranbağları *

Söğütözü Söğütözü is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çankaya, Ankara Province, Turkey. Its population is 5,668 (2022). It is located between the Eskişehir Road ( D-200 Eskişehir Yolu) and Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo. Its p ...

* Sokullu Mehmet Paşa * Tınaztepe * Tohumlar * Topraklık * Ümit * Umut * Üniversiteler * Yakupabdal * Yaşamkent * Yayla * Yeşilkent * Yıldızevler * Yücetepe * Yukarı Bahçelievler * Yukarı Dikmen * Yukarı Öveçler * Zafertepe File:Süleyman Demirel Funeral 1.jpg,

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Atakule Atakule is a 125 m (410 feet) high communications and observation tower located in the Çankaya district of central Ankara, Turkey, and is one of the primary landmarks of the city. As the district of Çankaya is itself on a hill, the t ...

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Gazi University Gazi University () is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk originally as the Gazi Education Institute (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Gazi Eğitim Ens ...

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Campus

Politics and government

Çankaya has always played an important role in politics, government, and diplomacy, as the Grand National Assembly is located in the district as well as the former residence of the President of Turkey. Various embassies can be found in the district. Çankaya is an overwhelmingly CHP-voting district both in local and general elections. The party has majority when it comes to general elections. CHP holds a supermajority in Çankaya District Council, with 44 out of 47 members of the district council also being a member of the party.

Places of interest

* The

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations () is located on the south side of Ankara Castle in the Atpazarı area in Ankara, Turkey. It consists of the old Ottoman Mahmut Paşa bazaar storage building, and the Kurşunlu Han. Because of Atatürk's ...

Anıtkabir Anıtkabir (; ) is a mausoleum complex located in the Çankaya district of Ankara, Turkey. It serves as the resting place of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of the Turkish Republic. Designed by architects Emin Onat and ...

the mausoleum of Atatürk * Ankara Ethnography Museum * Atakule Tower *

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 dist ...

- the former residence of the President of Turkey * Pembe Köşk - the residence of Turkish President

İsmet İnönü Mustafa İsmet İnönü (24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the second List of Presidents of Turkey, president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its Prime Minister of Turkey, pr ...

from 1925 to 1973 * THF Sport Hall

References

External links

Presidency of Turkey, official website

District governor's official website

District municipality's official website

The Kavaklıdere resident's association
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