Güdül is a quiet rural town and district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 90 km north-west of the city of Ankara, off the motorway to Istanbul. The district covers an area of 419 km², and the average elevation is 720 m. According to 2010 census, population of the district is 8971 of which 2623 live in the town of Güdül with the majority in the surrounding countryside.

Güdül is a mountainous district with a dry climate featuring cold winters (down to -20 °C), hot summers (up to 35 °C) and a little rain in spring and autumn. There is some agriculture and the crops include hot peppers and chick peas, which are dried and sold as leblebi.

Research shows occupation since prehistoric times, and caves along the river Kirmir contain stone workings apparently by the Hittites (2000 BC). Later the area was occupied by Phrygians, Ancient Romans and Byzantines (one of the caves has a carved cross from the early spread of Christianity under Roman rule).

In 1071, the Byzantine armies were defeated by the Turks at the battle of Malazgirt and soon afterwards all of central Anatolia came under Turkish control. Güdül was occupied by Seljuk Turks including the lord of Ankara, Şehabüldevle Güdül Bey.

Ankaralı Turgut is one of the oldest and once the most popular singer from the "Ankaralı"(the one comes from Ankara) school of Turkish ethnic music. He started his career in early 90's and he was morally questionized by many. His rivals are Ankaralı Namık and Hasan Yılmaz and his fellow friend is Ankaralı Yasemin, who is a similar female singer. He is a famous performer of electronic "Ankara music" style.^{[verification needed]}

He only can make the songs named "novelty" by the Eastern music researchers. By the impact of popular music culture on Turkey, most regional singers of Ankara (capital city of Turkey) turned their way to novelty-kind-of-music which considers only sexuality and black humour on daily life.^{[verification needed]} This was a result of that entertainment market in Ankara explored the power of "sexuality in music" that sells well.

İbrahim Melih Gökçek (born on October 20, 1948, in Keçiören, Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish politician who has been the mayor of Ankara since 1994. Between 1991-1994, he was a MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009.

The Gökçek family, originally from Halfeti, moved to Gaziantep for father Ahmet Gökçek's career as a lawyer. Having his primary, secondary and high school education in Gaziantep, Melih Gökçek graduated from Gazi University, College of Journalism, in Ankara. He worked as Parliament Correspondent and newspaper representative. Gökçek completed his military service as a Reserve Officer at Güzelyurt in Northern Cyprus.

After he returned from military service, Gökçek set up a business. Then from 1984 to 1989 he acted as the Mayor of Keçiören, a district in Ankara, under the leadership of the Mayor of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, Mehmet Altinsoy.

The following two years Melih Gökçek ran the Social Services and Child Protection Society as the General Director between the years 1989-1991. In 1991 he entered the parliament as Ankara MP for the Welfare Party. While he was a MP during local elections in 1994, he stood for the Mayor Office of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and won the election. He was elected for the same duty again in 1999 as the candidate of the Virtue Party and became the first person to be successively elected as the Mayor of Metropolitan Municipality for two times in the history of Ankara. He then joined the Justice and Development Party and was elected for the same duty for third time in 2004 and even a fourth time in 2009 and thus became the first person to be successively elected as the Mayor of the Metropolitan Municipality for four times in the history of Ankara. Gökçek is also the first mayor in the history of Ankara who was elected four times in a row.