Çelebi Island is an Aegean island in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. The island at is a part of

Bodrum Bodrum () is a port city in Muğla Province, southwestern Turkey, at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova. Its population was 35,795 at the 2012 census, with a total of 136,317 inhabitants residing within the district's borders. Known in ancient ...

ilçe The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...

(district) of

Muğla Province Muğla Province ( tr, , ) is a province of Turkey, at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its seat is Muğla, about inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum, Ölüdeniz, Marmaris and Fethiye, ...

. It is situated in the center of a gulf facing Bitez. Its distance to Bodrum is Map page
/ref> Its area is about . Recently, the visitors had brought five rabbits to the uninhabited island. Without a predator, the rabbits multiplied quickly and they began to threaten the plant cover of the island. Although the municipality tried to feed the rabbits they face the risk of starvation Radikal newspaper
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{{Islands of Turkey Islands of Turkey Aegean islands Islands of Muğla Province Bodrum District