Izvet History

Table tennis has been on the march in veterans’ level day by day, with the efforts of three veteran associations which were founded in İstanbul and have been active especially as of 2002.The success of these associations’ national and international activities has got table tenis lovers in the other cities excited and then veteran table tennis players established their own associations respectively in Ankara and Bursa.Our association was founded by veteran players who love table tennis in 2007 for the purpose of making everyone love table tennis which is the sport of people of all ages, increasing the interest to it, making our members become positive thinkers and respectful individuals by boosting their moral and motivations, enabling them to live healthily, serving the social integration with many activities to be carried out by providing cooperation among individuals, chambers, associations, public enterprises, private institutions and sports clubs
Our association, founder members of which are Gürcan Karadede, Tolga Murat Özdemir, Cihan Yılmaz, Hakan Yener, Ahmet Bitirmiş, Sefa Eraslan and Ender Balıkçı, started its activities virtually with its first board meeting in 2008.The 1st Term Board of our association initially aimed at opening its own sports hall in which all age groups were able to play table tennis in international standards and started to work on these targets. Unfortunately, because of both being short on facilities in İzmir and the economic crisis which arose in the last fourth of 2008 affected these works in a negative way.
Our association, performing its Ordinary General Assembly at the end of 2009 and nominating its 2nd Board with new targets, took a crack at searching for the hall in 2010 and  2011 and took several steps forward in this way. Moreover, it made great contribution to increase in interest to this sport and improvement of cooperation between players and associations by performing veteran tournaments in this term. The first national veteran tournament of our region was organized by our association on 24th-25th April 2010 in Karşıyaka-Arena.Finally, our searching the hall came out well; İZVET ARENA was opened and the 2nd  National Veteran Spring Tournament on 2nd-3rd June 2012 was first performed in this hall.
Advertising activities were speed up with the opening of İzvet Arena and many tournaments have been organized successfully in the seasons of 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015, such as Autumn Open Tournament, Izmir Institutions League, Aegean Individual and Double Team League, National Veterans Tournament, Republic Day Tournament, Valentine’s Day, 18 March Çanakkale Martyrs Memorial Day, 19 May Youth Cup, 30 August Victory Cup, 9 September-Liberation Of İzmir, 29 October Republic Day (doubles) Tournament. Promotional activities have been made in the stands during TMTF- Super League Competitions (on10th-11th November 2012 and 8th-9th March 2014), Izsiad Business Days (on 30th November- 1st March 2012) and our region’s first open Tournament of Independence Day of Izmir on 9th September.Our association has launched the process of becoming sports club with the authority granted by our 4th Ordinary General Assembly on 25th January 2014 and has completed this process and gained the status of sports club with the registration number of 35-00785 in September, 2014.
Our association is affiliated to IVTTS International Veteran Table Tennis Society (www.tt-veterans-international.com) on 21.10.2014 and now it is the second member following Turkish Veteran Table Tennis Association in Turkey.
2007-2011

Foundation of the association (July, 2007)

The 1st Ordinary General Assembly (December, 2007)

The 1st Period – The First Board Meeting (January, 2008)

The works about searching a hall (2008-2011)

The 2nd Ordinary General Assembly (December, 2010)

The 2nd Period- The Board Meeting

1st National Spring Veterans Tournament (24-25 April, 2010)

2012

The 3th Ordinary General Assembly (January, 2012)

The 3th Period- The Board Meeting (January, 2012)

Opening of İZVET ARENA (03, June, 2012)

2nd National Spring Veterans Tournament (3-4 June, 2012)

Autumn Open Tournament (13-14 October, 2012)

2012-2013 Izmir Institutionanl League (22 companies)

2012-2013 Aegean 2-Players Team League (32 teams)

2012-2013 Aegean Rating League (130 players)

2013

3th National Veterans Tournament (13-14 April, 2013)

Autumn Open Tournament (21-22 September, 2013)

29 October Republic Cup- Doubles Tournament (26, October, 2013)

2013-2014 Izmir Institutional League (16 companies)

2013-2014 Aegean Rating League (96 players)

2013-2014 Aegean 2Players Team League (39 teams)

2014

The 4th Ordinary General Assembly (25 January, 2014)

The 4th Period- The Board Meeting (30 January, 2014)

Valentine’s Day Tournament (15 February, 2014)

18 March-Çanakkale Martyrs Memorial Day (29 March, 2014)

4th Veterans (ÇEŞME) Tournament (12-13 April, 2014)

19 May Youth Cup (19 May, 2014)

30 August Victory Cup (30 August, 2014)

29 September Liberation of Izmir Cup (6 September, 2014)

29 October Republic Cup- Doubles Tournament (26, October, 2014)

2014-2015 Izmir Institutional League (19 companies)

2014-2015 Aegean 2-Players Team Team League (39 teams)

2014-2015 Aegean Rating League (82 Players)