The CNR Yenişehir Exhibition Center (), formerly Mersin Yenişehir Exhibition Center (), is an exhibition area in

Mersin Mersin () is a large city and port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of Mediterranean Region, Turkey, southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of the Mersin Province (formerly İçel). It is made up of four district governorates ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

Geography

At the exhibition area is situated at the extreme west of Yenişehir second level municipality. It is to the north of Gazi Mustafa Kemal Boulevard.

History

The fairground was constructed by Yenişehir Municipality, and opened on October 18, 2007. It was operated by Forza Exhibition Co. until 51% of the company's stock was purchased by CNR Expo Co. on March 1, 2012, which is the current operator. Although CNR runs an exhibition center in İstanbul Mersin is the first exhibition center of CNR in Anatolia. In the press conference held after the handover, Ceyda Erem the chairperson of the executive board said that the exhibition center will not only attract companies from the Mideast and Mediterranean but they also plan to bring European companies to Mersin.

Details

The total area of the fairground is while are covered. It consists of three exhibition halls, foyer, five conference rooms, art gallery, two cafés, a restaurant for 200 guests and parking lot.

Major events

The Hall A of the exhibition center hosted

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on June 22–23 and

table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

events on June 25–29 during the

2013 Mediterranean Games The 2013 Mediterranean Games (), officially known as the XVII Mediterranean Games () and commonly known as Mersin 2013, was an international multi-sport event held from 20 to 30 June 2013 in Mersin, Turkey. Mersin was announced as the host cit ...

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competitions of the Games were held in the Hall C between June 22 and 27.

References

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