Baltacı

The Baltacı corps (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)