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Zeynep Çelik (judoka)
Zeynep Çelik (born 7 April 1996) is a Turkish world and European champion Paralympic judoka with visual impairment. Sport career Çelik is tall at . She is a member of Kocaeli BB Kağıt SK and is coached by Ahmet Ömre Türe. She has a visual impairment of sport disability classification B3. Çelik won the bronze medal at the 2015 IBSA European Judo Championships in Odivelas, Portugal. She became gold medalist at the 2017 IBSA European Judo Championships in Walsall, United Kingdom, and at the 2018 IBSA Judo World Championships in Odivelas, Portugal. At the 2021 IBSA Judo World Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, she suffered a fracture on her left wrist. She was cured for two and half months before she attended the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She took the gold medal at the 2022 IBSA Judo World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2023, she won the gold medal at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ağrı
Ağrı ( ku, Agirî; ) is the capital of Ağrı Province in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. Formerly known as Karaköse ( ku, Qerekose) from the early Turkish republican period until 1946, and before that as Karakilise ( ota, قرهکلیسا, Karakilisa, lit=Black Church; ), the city is now named after Ağrı, the Turkish name of Mount Ararat''.'' History In the Ottoman Empire era, the area was called Karakilisa (). The current town center was founded around 1860 by a group of Armenian merchants from Bitlis with the name Karakilise () that became known to the local population as Karakise, and this version was turned officially to Karaköse at the beginning of the Republican era. This name was changed to Ağrı by 1946. In the years of 1927 to 1931, the region was under the occupation of the Kurdish separatist movements, which gained to establish an unrecognized state named Republic of Ararat which was led by several Kurdish leaders, some of the Main were Ibrahim Hes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Summer Paralympics
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Originally scheduled to take place from 25 August to 6 September 2020, both the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were postponed by a year in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rescheduled Games still referred to as ''Tokyo 2020'' for marketing and branding purposes. As with the Olympics, the Games were largely held behind closed doors with no outside spectators due to a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area and other prefectures. The Games were the second Summer Paralympics hosted by Tokyo since 1964, and the third Paralympics held in Japan overall since the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano. Due to the postponement of the Paralympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was also the first (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Births
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people 1996 Mount Everest disaster, die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly (sheep), Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur massacre (Australia), Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Gun laws of Australia, Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was Aircraft hijacking, hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TRT Spor
TRT 3 is a Turkish television channel. It mostly broadcasts sport events. History TRT 3 started test transmissions on October 2, 1989 as "3. Kanal", and is now TRT's third most watched TV station. TRT 3’s transmissions are realized through a time-share with TRT GAP and Turkish Grand National Assembly TV (TBMM TV). TRT 3’s programs mainly consist of sports, education, culture, music and news. Like most TRT channels, advertisements are allowed on this channel. Besides, TRT 3 broadcasts programs in vernaculars and dialects still practiced today in the daily lives of Turkish people. Between 1991 to 2008 for Turksat Kablo TV viewers, Spanish public broadcaster TVE Internacional will broadcast after close down TRT 3. On screen identity Like other TRT channels, even TRT 3 broadcasts 24 hours. Its broadcast starts with a short startup at 06:58. On this start-up, first the TRT Ident is shown, followed by the programme list for the day and Independence March. TRT 3 aired many wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside The Games
''Inside the Games'' (also known as insidethegames and insidethegames.biz) is an Olympic news website edited by the British sports journalist Duncan Mackay. Mackay launched the site in 2005, originally as insidethegames.com, following the announcement that London has been chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. The name of the site was changed to insidethegames.biz in 2009. ''Inside the Games'' is based in Bletchley, near Bletchley Park. Mackay was a winner of the 2009 Internet writer of the year award at the British Sports Journalism Awards by the Sports Journalists' Association for his work on insidethegames. The insidethegames site was involved in a court litigation in 2010 with Zulu Creative, a web design company previously used by insidethegames. The site is currently published by Dunsar Media. In addition to the Olympics, the site now covers Paralympics, Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tokyo Organising Committee Of The Olympic And Paralympic Games
The (TOCOG) was the organisation responsible for overseeing the planning and development of the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. History The Organising Committee was launched on 24 January 2014, and is composed of members of the Japanese Olympic Committee, the Japanese Paralympic Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Japanese government, as well as members of various other organisations and individuals from various fields. It was spearheaded by former Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori until his resignation in 2021, with Toshirō Mutō as Director General ( CEO) and former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe as its Supreme Advisor. Mori offered his resignation as head of the committee on 12 February 2021 following remarks he made during a meeting the previous week that were regarded as sexist. On 18 February, seven-time Olympian and LDP lawmaker Seiko Hashimoto was introduced as the committee's new president. Hashimoto is the first woman to head the TOCOG and second w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN Türk
CNN Türk is a Turkish pay television news channel, launched on 11 October 1999 as the localised variant of American channel CNN. It broadcasts exclusively for Turkey and it is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and Demirören Group. Its headquarters are in Istanbul. Controversies CNN Türk was one of the Turkish news channels which were criticised for not covering the Gezi Park protests. On June 2, 2013 at 1:00am, CNN Türk was broadcasting a documentary on penguins while CNN International was showing live coverage of the protests in Turkey. "'' n the afternoon of Friday, May 31, 2013' CNN Turk was broadcasting a food show, featuring the “flavors of Niğde.” Other major Turkish news channels were showing a dance contest and a roundtable on study-abroad programs. It was a classic case of the revolution not being televised. The whole country seemed to be experiencing a cognitive disconnect, with Twitter saying one thing, the government saying another, and the television off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi
Turkish National Paralympic Committee ( tr, Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi) is the National Paralympic Committee representing Turkey. It was founded in 2002. The organization's office is situated at Hatta Halim Sok. 13/1 in Gayrettepe neighborhood of Beşiktaş, Istanbul. See also *Turkish National Olympic Committee Turkish National Olympic Committee (TNOC) ( tr, Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi (TMOK)) is the governing Olympic body of Turkey. It is based in Istanbul. History As one of the oldest National Olympic Committees in the world, TNOC was founded o ... References External links * Turkey Turkey at the Paralympics 2002 establishments in Turkey Organizations based in Istanbul Beşiktaş Disability organizations based in Turkey {{Turkey-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karaman
Karaman, historically known as Laranda (Greek: Λάρανδα), is a city in south central Turkey, located in Central Anatolia, north of the Taurus Mountains, about south of Konya. It is the capital district of the Karaman Province. According to the 2000 census, the population of the province is 231,872 of which 132,064 live in the town of Karaman. The district covers an area of , and the town lies at an average elevation of . The Karaman Museum is one of the major sights. Etymology The town owes its name to Karaman Bey, who was one of the rulers of the Karamanid dynasty. The former name ''Laranda'' which in turn comes from the Luwian language ''Larawanda'', literally means "sandy, a sandy place". History In ancient times, Karaman was known as Laranda ( el, Λάρανδα). In the 6th century BC it came under Achaemenid rule until 322 BC, when it was destroyed by Perdiccas, a former general of Alexander the Great, after he had defeated Ariarathes I, king of Cappadocia. It lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University
Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University ( tr, Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi) is a public university in Karaman. History Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University (KMU) is one of new seventeen universities which were established in 2007 by the Turkish Government. However the university’s history dates back the Karaman Vocational School which was established as a part of Selcuk University in 1987. Several other academic units of KMU were established between 1991 and 1997 as a part of Selçuk University including Ermenek Vocational School in 1991, Karaman Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Vocational School of Health Services in 1992, Kazım Karabekir Vocational School in 1994, Health School of Health Science in 1996 , and School of Physical Education and Sports in 1997. In 2006 and 2007, Faculty of Literature and Faculty of Kamil Özdağ Science were established as a part of Selçuk University. All these academic units, which operated under the name of Selçuk Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidual Impairment
''The Ooz'' (stylised as ''The OOZ'') is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Archy Marshall, and his second album under the stage name King Krule. It was released on 13 October 2017 via True Panther Sounds and XL Recordings. The album incorporates elements of trip hop, R&B, punk rock, and jazz. Background "Czech One" was released in August 2017 as the first King Krule song in four years. Archy Marshall subsequently announced the release of ''The Ooz'' in September 2017, with its title and release date being first reported in ''The New York Times'' fall preview guide. The album is Marshall's first studio album as King Krule since 2013's '' 6 Feet Beneath the Moon''. Reception At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''The Ooz'' received an average score of 80, based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally positive reviews". In a review for AllMusic, Andy Kellman compared the album to its predecessor stating t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"New Meuse"'' inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse first, but now to the Rhine instead. Rotterdam's history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by William IV, Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the 10th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country. A major logistic and economic centre, Rotterdam is Europe's largest seaport. In 2020, it had a population of 651,446 and is home to over 180 nationalities. Rotterdam is known for its university, riverside setting, lively cultural life, maritime heritage and modern architecture. The near-complete destruction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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