Meaningful Support from ITU and ITU Basketball Sports Club Association to Turkish Basketball

Istanbul Technical University and ITU Basketball Sports Club Association are cooperating to serve Turkish basketball. With the protocol it signed with ITU Rectorate, ITU Basketball Sports Club Association aims to raise athletes for the Turkish National Basketball Team and to carry ITU Basketball Team to the Super League.

Istanbul Technical University and ITU Basketball Sports Club Association are cooperating to serve Turkish basketball. With the protocol it signed with ITU Rectorate, ITU Basketball Sports Club Association aims to raise athletes for the Turkish National Basketball Team and to carry ITU Basketball Team to the Super League.

A cooperation protocol was signed between Istanbul Technical University and ITU Basketball Sports Club Association to contribute to Turkish basketball and to raise young players. According to the protocol signed by ITU Rector Prof. Dr. İsmail Koyuncu and Istanbul Technical University Basketball Sports Club Association administrators Hakkı Ali Murat Başkaya and Mehmet Aykaç, it is planned to work for other sports branches besides basketball under the name ITU Sports Union.

Super League is the target

According to the protocol signed with ITU in order to bring Turkish basketball to its rightful place and to raise athletes for the national team, it is aimed to establish and prepare teams that will play in upper leagues, mainly the Super League, by making all kinds of necessary preparations in the basketball infrastructure and superstructure in order to participate in formal and informal competitions.

The protocol covers the support given to students with sports scholarship at ITU for their education life and later their access to job opportunities, organization of sports events (tournaments, competitions, sports festival) and training programs at ITU campuses and the use of ITU’s facilities.