The 15th Ordinary General Assembly Meeting of our Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Sports Club was held on Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at the İBB Cebeci Sports Complex. In the General Assembly, Fatih Keleş was re-elected as president with the unanimous vote of all members. In Fatih Keleş's board of directors, Ali Aral, Batuhan Ersoy, Erdem Hüsnü Aslanoğlu, Esra Gümüş Kırıcı, Gülsüm Polat, İsmail Doğan Subaşı, Kadri Sancaktar, Melendiz Dalyan İzgi, Muradiye Şit, and Ziya Gökmen Togay served as full members.
Additionally, the Substitute Members of the Board of Directors consisted of Görkem Kurşun, Nerze Özyurtlu, Berk Tütüncü, Melis Erüstün, Mert Bahçetepe, and Ali Mesut Çelik. The full members of the İBB Sports Club Audit Board were Bektaş Ulusan, İbrahim Özkan, and Süleyman Tarık Balyalı. The substitute members of the Audit Board were Görkem Korkut, Çağhan Bulut, and Uğur Dündar.
Our president, Fatih Keleş, expressed his gratitude to all members for their participation in his speech after the general assembly. President Keleş stated: “Since 2019, I have been proud to serve as the president of our esteemed sports club, which has a 35-year deep-rooted history. For the next 4 years, with the support of our Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, we will serve our city and country as the club of Istanbul.”
KELEŞ: OUR GOAL IS THE 2027 EUROPEAN GAMES AND THE 2028 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS
“Now we have a 4-year process ahead of us. Our main goal is the 2027 Istanbul European Games and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. European and World Championships are certainly our goals, but our highest level is the Olympics. We will continue to work with this objective.”
“We will strive to expand our branches within the framework of our budgets. We will continue to support our young athletes and our infrastructures. We will keep providing support to female athletes and practicing positive discrimination towards them. Until we bring the 2036 Olympic Games to Istanbul and ensure that many of our athletes participate in these Olympics, we will continue to support our athletes and coaches. We will work together in line with this goal.”