Baltacı

The Baltacı corps (Turkish: baltacı means "a person skilled with an axe", from balta: "axe", i.e., "woodcutter" or "halberdier") was a palace guard of the Ottoman Empire. It may also refer to:

People

• Baltacı Mehmet Pasha (1662–1712), Ottoman Grand Vizier (1704–1706, 1710–1711)
• Baltacı Süleyman Pasha, a wali of Damascus (1706-1707) and Beilylerey of Egypt (1704)
• Ali Taner Baltacı (born 1977), Turkish filmmaker
• Ecem Baltacı (born 19940, Turkish actress
• Mehmet Baltacı (1944-2007) Turkish photographer
• Necabettin Baltacı, birth name of Necabettin Ergenekon (1926-2020), Turkish officer
• Özkan Baltacı (born 13 February 1994), Turkish hammer thrower

Places

• Baltacı, Cide, a village in the district of Cide, Kastamonu Province, Turkey
• Baltacı, Dicle, a village in the district of Dicle, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey
• Baltacı, Kastamonu, a village in the district of Kastamonu, Kastamonu Province, Turkey
• Baltacı Mehmet Paşa, Osmancık, a village in the district of Osmancık, Çorum Province, Turkey
• Baltacı Stream, Trabzon Province, Turkey (a.k.a. Baltacı River, Baltacı Creek, Yeniköy Stream)

See also

• All pages with titles containing Baltaci
• Baltacha, a derived name