Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall ( tr, Haldun Alagaş Spor Kompleksi) is an

indoor arena An arena is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators ...

located in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. Opened in December 2000, the arena mostly hosts

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

games. It has a seating capacity for 2,468 spectators. Named after the three-times World and four-times European

karate (; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the ...

champion

Haldun Alagaş Haldun Alagaş (November 16, 1970 in Izmit, Turkey) is a Turkish karateka competing in the kumite -70 kg division. He is multiple world and European champion and ranks first at world list in his weight division. Personal li ...

, the sports complex is located in

Ümraniye Ümraniye () is a district of Istanbul. It was separated from Üsküdar in 1987. It is bordered by Çekmeköy to the northeast, Sancaktepe to the east, Ataşehir to the south, Üsküdar to the west and Beykoz to the northwest. History Ümraniye i ...

district of Istanbul, east side of

Bosporus The Bosporus Strait (; grc, Βόσπορος ; tr, İstanbul Boğazı 'Istanbul strait', colloquially ''Boğaz'') or Bosphorus Strait is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul in northwestern T ...

Features

The arena covers an area of approximately and is one of major arenas of the city on three floors and including entire units, sum of . The center serves various sport branches for over 2,000 sports people and inhabitants daily with its training facilities. Beside, it includes a library and conference hall and the car park creates a solid source of income to get by. It is in usage of sport teams such as Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Men's Volleyball and Men's Handball Teams and

Tekelspor Tekelspor is a defunct basketball club based in İstanbul, Turkey that played in the Turkish Basketball League. Their home arena is the Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall. The club was sponsored by Tekel Tekel A.Ş. ( Turkish, literally ''single-hand'' o ...

basketball team.

References

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