Abdi İpekçi Arena
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Abdi İpekçi Sports Complex |
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| place | Kazlıçeşme, Kazlıçeşme Mh. 34020 Zeytinburnu , Istanbul , Turkey
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 59 '49 " N , 28 ° 55' 10" E |
| opening | 1986 |
| demolition | 2018 |
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Concrete parquet |
| costs | 13.8 million US dollars |
| architect | Ragip Uluc Zia Tanal Ercan Yener |
| capacity | 12,500 seats |
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The Abdi İpekçi Arena was a multi-purpose hall in the Zeytinburnu district in the European part of the Turkish city of Istanbul . The arena was named after the journalist and editor-in-chief of the newspaper " Milliyet " Abdi İpekçi , who was shot in February 1979 by the pope assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca .
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Construction work began in the late 1970s; but they have been interrupted in the meantime. The arena experienced its inauguration in 1986. The hall held a total of 12,500 spectators. The first division basketball team Galatasaray Medical Park (men, Türkiye Basketbol Ligi ) and (women, Türkiye Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi ), the basketball department of Galatasaray Istanbul , have played regularly in the sports arena since 2009 . The basketball teams of Anadolu Efes and Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor were also based in the hall until 2011 . Anadolu Efes then played his games in the Sinan Erdem Dome , but returned to the Abdi İpekçi Arena in 2015. Fenerbahçe moved from Sinan Erdem Dome to their new Ülker Sports Arena in 2012 . The hall was also used for other sports such as volleyball , weightlifting and wrestling . Concerts, conferences and other events are also organized. 1,500 parking spaces were available around the building.
The Final Four of the ULEB Euroleague 1991/92 was held in the hall. The final in the 1995 European Basketball Cup between Benetton Treviso and Taugrés Vitoria ended in the Abdi İpekçi Arena with a 94-86 victory for the Italians from Treviso.
The first All-Star Game of FIBA Europa FIBA Eurostars 1996 was played on December 30th of that year in front of 14,000 spectators in the Istanbul Arena. In the first All-Star Game since 1964, the East won against the West with 117: 114.
The hall was one of the venues for the 2001 European Basketball Championship and the 2010 World Basketball Championship . In 2004 the Eurovision Song Contest was held in the arena. In addition to the city of Izmir, Istanbul with the Abdi İpekçi Arena was the venue for the 2009 European men's volleyball championship . For the 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships in the sports arena, two 25-meter pools were temporarily set up for the competitions.
The hall was closed after the 2016/17 season and demolition began in January 2018. A basketball training and performance center is to be built in their place. Anadolu Efes and Galatasaray have been playing their games in the Sinan Erdem Dome since the 2017/18 season . Galatasaray is also planning to move into a newly built arena in the coming years.
Web links
- tbf.org.tr: Arena on the homepage of the Turkish Basketball Association ( Memento from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Turkish)
- fiba2010.mekan360.com: 360 degree interior panorama (Turkish)
- sporsalonum.info: Data on the stadium ( Memento from March 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Turkish)
- stadionwelt.de: Pictures of the hall
Individual evidence
- ↑ turkey2010.fiba.com: audience capacity ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ euroleague.net: Final Four 1992 in Istanbul ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
- ↑ fibaeurope.com: FIBA Eurostars 1996 (English)
- ↑ ecgermany.de: ESC 2004
- ↑ Abdi İpekçi yıkılıyor! Retrieved November 6, 2017 (Turkish).
- ↑ Abdi İpekçi Spor Salonu'nun yıkımına başlandı. January 23, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018 (Turkish).
- ↑ “Abdi İpekçi Spor Salonu” Efsanesi, Yeni Bir Boyut Kazanıyor. (No longer available online.) Potamanya - Basketbol Haber Portalı, January 19, 2018, archived from the original on September 15, 2018 ; Retrieved January 23, 2018 (Turkish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Galatasaray building a new arena. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
