Ankara Metro Ankara Metro The Ankara Metro () is the rapid transit system serving Ankara, the capital of Turkey. At present, Ankara's rapid transit system consists of five metro lines – the "Batıkent Metrosu (M1)", the "Koru Metrosu (M2)", the "Törekent Metrosu (M3)" lines and the new "Keçiören Metrosu (M4)" line opened in 2017, along with the light rail "Ankaray" line. The Ankaray, the M1, M2 and M3 lines, together transported 104.1 million passengers in 2014. That corresponds to a ridership of approximately 289,155 per day. The "Kızılay to Atatürk Cultural Center" link of M4 is not yet opened and remains under
Çankaya, Ankara (district) changed in the 1920s when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 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 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. The climate in Çankaya is cold and temperate. The