Harmancı: We Are Ready to Bring an Indoor Sports Hall to Nicosia

LTB Mayor and TDP mayoral candidate Mehmet Harmancı visited the Turkish Cypriot Sports Writers' Association together with TDP municipal council candidates. Association President Necati Özsoy thanked Harmancı for his support of the sports community and the association to date. Özsoy said the municipality's investments in the sports field are extremely valuable and wished that Harmancı's contributions to Nicosia, the country and sports would continue to grow. Harmancı expressed his pleasure at meeting the sports writers and outlined the municipality's sports policy and goals for the next term. Harmancı noted that the LTB Sports and Brotherhood Park, where construction has begun, will include 2 football fields, 3 basketball courts and 3 tennis courts, as well as walking paths and social areas. He said the park will make a serious contribution to the development of the country's sports. Harmancı noted that indoor sports federations need new sports halls and announced that they will request land allocation from the new government so that sports facilities can be built. Drawing attention to football's loss of spectator potential, Harmancı said the causes of this should be investigated together with the relevant stakeholders. He also stated that transportation of sports writers to distant destinations for important matches could be supported, and he emphasized the importance of fair competition in sports. Saying “We are the municipality of all sports branches,” Harmancı stated that they will continue to contribute to the development of different sports and are working to create a comprehensive youth center for young people. At the end of his speech, Harmancı thanked the sports writers who work under difficult conditions, saying, “You too have come to this point from scratch, like us. We will carry this effort, this sweat of your brow, into the next term.”

Source: Haber Kibris Spor

Correction (03.11.2026): The sentence “2 tennis courts will be in the park” was replaced with “3 tennis courts”; the sentence “1 padel court will be in the park” was removed.