Çayyolu is a suburb of

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Location and history

Çayyolu at 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 . 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. 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
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Yenimahalle Yenimahalle is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, a fast-growing urban residential district of the city of Ankara, Turkey's capital. According to 2010 census, population of the urban center is 648 ...

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). 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.

Population

Currently in addition to Çayyolu there are eight neighborhoods; Alacaatlı, Dodorga, Konutkent, Koru, Mutlukent, Profesör Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Ümitköy and Yaşamkent all of which collectively are known as Çayyolu. From east to west Mutlukent, Ümitköy, Koru, Konutkent and Yaşamkent are along the highway. The population of these neighborhoods as of 2015 and 2019 are shown in the table.Çankaya population page
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Mass transportation

The mass transportation between Ankara centrum and Çayyolu is via

Ankara Metro The Ankara Metro ( tr, Ankara Metrosu) is the rapid transit system serving Ankara, the capital of Turkey. At present, Ankara's rapid transit system consists of two metro lines – the ''Batıkent Metrosu (M1)''and the new ''Keçiören Metrosu (M4 ...

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

References

{{reflist Çankaya, Ankara Populated places in Ankara Province Suburbs in Asia