Çayyolu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çankaya,

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. Its population is 6,695 (2022).

Location and history

Çayyolu is situated to the west of Hacettepe University Beytepe campus, to the east of Ankara ring road and to the south of the Turkish state highway D.200. Its distance to the Ankara centrum is about . The core of the suburb is a former village named ''Kutuğun'' situated almost at the center of the Çayyolu suburb. Çayyolu is approximately a 400-year-old Turkish village. In 1967 the village was renamed Çayyolu. Beginning by the next year, housing projects around the village transformed the rural area into an urban area. Çayyolu page
/ref> Up to 2012, it was a part of Yenimahalle

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(district). But in 2012, it was included in the Çankaya ilçe. Today Çayyolu is a modern suburb with parks, shopping malls, supermarkets, restaurants, coffeehouses, cinema halls a sports complex and a theatre named

125th Anniversary Çayyolu Stage 125th Anniversary Çayyolu Stage (), is a theatre in Çayyolu suburb of Çankaya, Ankara (neighbourhood), Çankaya district in Ankara, Turkey. It is operated by the Turkish State Theatres. References

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Population

Currently in addition to Çayyolu there are eight neighborhoods: Alacaatlı, Dodorga, Konutkent, Koru, Profesör Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Ümitköy and Yaşamkent all of which collectively are known as Çayyolu.Neighborhood list
/ref> From east to west Mutlukent, Ümitköy, Koru, Konutkent and Yaşamkent are along the highway. The population of these neighborhoods as of 2022 are shown in the table.

Mass transportation

The mass transportation between Ankara centrum and Çayyolu is via

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M2. The last three stations of the metro namely, Ümitköy, Çayyolu and Koru are actually within the suburb.

References

{{Çankaya District Neighbourhoods in Çankaya District