Çeltikçi, Kızılcahamam


Çeltikçi is a small town in Kızılcahamam district of Ankara Province, Turkey. It is situated to the south of Çamlıudere Dam reservoir and to the south west of Kızılcahamam at. The population of Çeltikçi was 499 as of 2011. The earliest references to Çeltikçi are of 1691 when the Ottoman government forced a small Turkmen tribe to settle. But later other people like Circassians from the Caucasus, Turks from Veliko Tarnovo, Circassians and Tatars from Dobruja were also settled in Çeltikçi.