24th Dr. Fazıl Küçük Sports Games to Be Held on 6 and 7 November at Lefkoşa Atatürk Sports Complex

The 24th Dr. Fazıl Küçük Sports Games will be held on 6 and 7 November at the facilities of the Lefkoşa Atatürk Sports Complex. A press conference for the games, which will bring together a total of 1200 athletes under nine branches and federations, was held this morning at 11:00 at the KT Sports Writers Association.

Sports Department Director Ersan Karataş said they were excited and happy to organize this event, which will show the unifying power of sport. Karataş said the aim is to increase young people's participation in sporting activities and to develop sports culture. Thanking the participating federations' representatives, Karataş called on the sports community and the public to attend the games.

Mehmet Küçük, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dr. Fazıl Küçük Foundation, said considerable progress has been made thanks to past experience. Küçük said the participation of 1200 young people and 9 federations marks a record for the games, but noted that the lack of participation from abroad was disappointing. He stated that international participation is important both for introducing Dr. Fazıl Küçük and the TRNC to foreign children and for young people to get to know one another, and he repeated the call for international participation in the coming years. Küçük thanked the Sports Department and the Prime Ministry for organizing the event.

At the press conference, representatives of the handball, weightlifting and bodybuilding fitness, football, tennis, water sports, athletics and basketball federations also spoke and described their roles in the event. The meeting ended with the screening of the Dr. Fazıl Küçük Sports Games video.