President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, “We show that we have protected the heritage of the ancestors by opening the Hagia Sophia for worship last year, putting the Great Camlica Mosque into service the previous year and holding the first Friday in the Taksim Mosque yesterday.”

President Erdogan sent a video message to the Ninth International Conquest Cup Program of the Archers Foundation.

Erdogan said: “My dear nation, dear children of Istanbul, our esteemed athletes, our dear guests, who met in Ok Maidani on the occasion of the Ninth International Conquest Cup.

I greet you all with my heartfelt feelings and loyalty, “and I hope that the 568th anniversary of the Istanbul conquest will be useful.

Erdogan said, expressing his gratitude to every member of the blessed army, especially the conqueror Sultan Mehmed Han, who conquered Istanbul and made it the Eternal City of the nation.

“I congratulate all our martyrs, veterans and heroes who sacrificed their lives without blinking for this land to be our home for a thousand years.

I wish the best of luck to our 200 athletes who came from more than 30 countries, especially in Turkey, and participated in the Archery Cup competitions.

I would like to express my special thanks to our archers who brought the spirit of conquest to the present with their arrows saying “Hey Hack”.

“We protect trust by developing and beautifying our Istanbul”

Expressing that the competition is not just a sports competition, Erdogan said, it is a cultural festival in which the meaning of the great turning point that opened and closed the ages is transmitted from generation to generation.

“Although we cannot realize this with the enthusiasm we desire due to the epidemiological conditions, I believe that the excitement of the conquest embodied in the Cup of Fath surrounded the hearts of all our youth, and we show that we protect the ancestral heritage by performing the first Friday.”

With its streets and bridges, Marmaray and the Eurasia tunnel, metro and parks, and most of all, we protect our confidence by developing and beautifying Istanbul through our many services that we provide directly to our people.

In this context, we admire the activities carried out within the Okçular Foundation, which is the First Fatih Foundation in Istanbul.

Which aims to keep the memory of our ancestors and our ancient traditions alive and to bring our youth together with sports. “

“We are building a great and strong Turkey step by step with our youth”

President Erdogan said, noting that the youth inside the institution are proud of their successful work starting from Malazhert to Istanbul, and from there to events abroad.

“We, with our youth, express the courage of Alp Arslan in Malazgirt, Osman’s dream, Gazi in Sogut, Fatih in Istanbul.

“We are building a great and strong Turkey step by step by living the revolution of the Turkish Republic, the power of Gazi Mustafa Kemal in Ankara, and the will to protect its independence on July 15th.

And these young people are the ones who will raise our civilization that we installed on these lands. We made it our home by watering them with our blood and sweat and bringing it to the top.

Today, we are repeating the saga we wrote with archers yesterday with our unmanned aerial vehicles, our programs, our production and our exports.”

President Erdogan said that they implemented all of this, taking into account the importance that grandparents attach to archery and shooting that they attribute to it, and President Erdogan concluded his speech as follows:

“The inability to enter Okemedani without ablution, and the fact that the competitions must start with Basmalah and the ability to use stocks in the exams.

Observance of morals and personality also shows us the way we should follow today.

A tree that has lost its roots cannot survive, and a society that has lost its ties to the roots of its faith and culture cannot survive for long.

We expect our young people to practice sports and traditional arts such as archery, horse riding, sword, calligraphy, lighting, and all kinds of social and cultural activities today with this understanding.

We look to our future with more confidence as we see our young people thinking mentally, feeling their heart and building with taste.

With these feelings, I hope the ninth International Conquest Cup will succeed, I would like to express my gratitude to all of our young people who have taken care of our traditional sports branches in your presence.

I congratulate from the bottom of my heart all the athletes from all over the world who are participating in the Conquest Cup. Once again, I greet you all with affectionate respect.”

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The final match of the UEFA Champions League will be played at Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, and the ball called “The Finale Istanbul 21” will be used for the remainder of the 2020-2021 UEFA Champions League season.

According to the UEFA statement, the ball made by Adidas, one of the sponsors of the organization for the final match to be held at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium on May 29, will be used from the round of 16 in the tournament, which will start on Tuesday, February 16.

The design of “The Finale Istanbul 21”, which consists of the colors of red, white, gray and black, is inspired by the stars in the UEFA Champions League logo, as has been the case since 2001.

The ball pattern, produced to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the iconic star design, bears traces of the previous 20 last matches.

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Ataturk Olympic Stadium is considered to be the largest stadium in Turkey. Located in Ikitelli region of the municipality of Basaksehir, which is a modern area in the western suburbs of Istanbul.

The stadium was named after Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first president of Turkish Republic.

The construction of the Stadium began on an area of ​​584 hectares, in the year 1999. And construction was completed in 2002 at a total cost of approximately 140 million dollars. With a capacity of 76,092 people in addition to 18,900 parking lots. Making it the largest sports complex in Istanbul.

In 2004 the Ataturk Olympic Stadium was announced as a 5-star sports complex by the European Football Association (UEFA), allowing the stadium to host European competitions held in the name of the European Union (UEFA).

This Stadium also hosted the famous Champions League final match, that took place on May 5, 2005 between AC Milan and Liverpool.

In 2008 the stadium was also approved as an Olympic stadium capable of hosting the official Olympic Games.

Ataturk Olympic Stadium has 134 entrances and 148 exits, And can discharge up to 80,000 spectators in just 7 minutes during emergencies.

UEFA Champions League Final 2020

The Stadium has been nominated to host the 2020 UEFA Champions League Final. Which was to be played on May 30, 2020. But was postponed due to the global Coronavirus crisis, which completely stopped the football season all over the world.

How to go to Ataturk Olympic Stadium?

The Ataturk Olympic Stadium can be reached by T1 tram line. as you need to get off at Bağcılar Station.
after that you must walk about 300 meters to Bağcılar Meydan Station.
then take the M1B Metro line to Kirazlı (also the Istanbul M1B metro line can be taken directly to go to Kirazlı Station, if you are in the place with M1B Metro line ).
Then take the M3 Metro line that leads you directly to the Olimpiyat Park.

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