Çankaya Belediyesi

Çankaya is the metropolitan district of Ankara. Being the headquarter of Turkey’s legislative, executive and judicial structure it is the center of political, professional, economic and governmental bodies. When the city became the capital of the Turkish Republic in 1923, it has been the symbol of the young Republic and a modernizing society, designating the physical environment of radical political and social changes.

Çankaya is one of Turkey's most populous city by its population of 914,500 people in an area of 46,220 hectaresand 124 neighborhoods. Hosting the Parliament and the Government of the Republic of Turkey itis the city holding the most important political, legal, socio-economic, culturaland educational institutionswithin its boundaries together with allembassies and representative offices.

Çankaya is also known as a city of students, in 10 Universities there are over 100.000 students.
Ankara Cyclists’ Shared Platform (shortly A.B.O.P in Turkish) was established in Ankara in 2014 by 12 cooperating cyclist groups riding with different purposes. The primary concern of the platform is to work out solutions to problems of safe cycling and to put them into effect on legal grounds and supervise the process. To this end, ABOP has been collaborating with non-governmental bodies, and has had support of organizations operating in similar or different issues. The future concern of ABOP, besides many other activities, is to collaborate with local and national administrations to increase the number of people using bicycles for commuting as well as increasing the awareness about cycling and safe riding.