The “Mustafa V. Koç Sports activities Award”, which was created to maintain alive the reminiscence and imaginative and prescient of Mustafa V. Koç, who believes within the unifying and transformative energy of sports activities and sees sports activities as an integral a part of social growth, was granted for the sixth time this 12 months. The 2022 Mustafa V. Koç Sports activities Award was given to the Step by Step Formation, which led the best way in rising the notice of non-governmental organizations in people and establishments in our nation, and within the growth of donation sources, with the “Charitable Runs”.
Unity, success collectively, creating staff spirit, helpfulness, which represent the founding philosophy of the Step by Step Formation, which helps non-governmental organizations in many various fields corresponding to surroundings, schooling, road animals, tradition, artwork, sports activities, human rights, social companies, science and know-how. Values corresponding to exclusion and reinforcing friendship made it the primary establishment to be deemed worthy of an award by the Mustafa V. Koç Sports activities Award Jury. Among the many causes for taking the award had been Adim Adim.
Mustafa V. Koç Sports activities Award, organized by Koç Holding in cooperation with the Turkish Nationwide Olympic Committee (TMOK) and whose everlasting theme was decided as “Contribution to Olympic values”, was offered to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, Koç on November 1, 2022, on November 1, 2022. It was attended by members of the family, Koç Holding and Koç Group senior executives, TOC executives and friends. The Mustafa Koç Sports activities Award, which was given to an establishment for the primary time, was offered to its Co-Founders Itır Erhart and İtır Erhart on behalf of the Step by Step Formation. Renay took Honor.
CAROLINE N. KOÇ: MUSTAFA LIVED AS A DEFENSE OF MANY VALUES
Koç Holding Board Member and Mustafa V. Koç Sports activities Award Jury President Caroline N. Koç used the next statements in her speech: “Mustafa Koç Sports activities Award is to commemorate pricey Mustafa all collectively, to recollect the values that made Mustafa Mustafa; It’s a very priceless alternative to share with the general public the worth he offers to sports activities and athletes. Mustafa shouldn’t be solely within the subject of sports activities; described as ‘Olympic values’ all through his life; He lived as a defender of many values corresponding to friendship, excellence and respect. He believed wholeheartedly that the unifying energy of sports activities introduced individuals collectively on the bottom of solidarity. He is additionally energetic in sports activities, not simply competing to win! He at all times stored these values of sports activities and ‘Truthful Play’ forward of success and efficiency. Because of this, along with our priceless challenge companion, the Nationwide Olympic Committee of Turkey, we have now decided the everlasting theme of the Mustafa Koç Sports activities Award, which we have now realized as of 2017, as ‘Contribution to Olympic values’.
THANKS TO DANKA BARTEKOVA
Caroline N. Koç, who thanked Olympic Shooter Danka Bartekova, who attended the night time because the particular visitor of the ceremony, for her participation. I wish to thank our visitor of honor, Mrs. Danka Bartekova, for being with us this night, who made essential contributions to the adoption and unfold of Olympic values. Himself, particularly the Olympic Video games; An Olympic athlete who has received many medals in world and regional competitions and set an instance for the society together with her values! Danka continues to be a member of the Worldwide Olympic Committee efficiently. It’s a supply of inspiration for all of us, particularly with the numerous initiatives it carries out for the empowerment of girls and the event of youth. I wholeheartedly imagine within the significance of introducing our youngsters and youth to position fashions corresponding to Danka in order that extra of our youth will undertake Olympic values as a way of life.”
Caroline N. Koç stated, “Mustafa was at all times greater than life and lived a life that may at all times make him stay within the hearts of hundreds of thousands. He ended his speech by saying, “It’s a nice pleasure to recollect his title by touching all of the human values he has and with sports activities, which is a topic he loves and believes in its energy.”
PROF. DR. UĞUR ERDENER: MUSTAFA KOÇ SPORTS AWARD, BEYOND SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS
President of the Turkish Nationwide Olympic Committee Prof. Dr. Uğur Erdener stated, “We’re comfortable to additional develop our long-standing friendship and cooperation with the Koç Household with this award, to maintain the reminiscence of late Mustafa Koç alive and to replicate his values, that are an inspiration to many people not solely in enterprise life but in addition in lots of areas of life. . On this event, I commemorate Mustafa Koç, who’s a revered businessman, athlete, sports activities supervisor, supporter of sports activities and who has internalized and inspired Olympic values in each facet of his life. Mustafa Koç Sports activities Award is greater than only a sports activities award, with standards corresponding to embracing Olympic values, being a great particular person and provoking massive lots, past sporting achievements, it’s an honor and an encouragement to higher.”
Uğur Erdener ended his speech as follows: “Till now, Taha Akgül and Gizem Girişmen, Yasemin Adar, İlke Özyüksel, İbrahim Çolak, Mete Gazoz and our Ladies’s Volleyball Nationwide Workforce, who’ve received this very particular award, are accepted as position fashions in our society that finest meet these standards. Our Values. And at this time, Step by Step Formation, which is the winner of the award, has undoubtedly created the identical values with its work and can replicate them to Turkish sports activities and the individuals of our nation sooner or later. I congratulate them wholeheartedly.”
ITIR ERHART: I FUCKED MY EYES WHEN I HEARD WE WERE WINNING THE AWARD
“After I heard that we are going to obtain this very particular award given on behalf of a really particular particular person, Mr. Mustafa Koç, my eyes stuffed with tears. Happiness and hope… These had been the 2 intense feelings that cellphone name left me with. That is why I wish to discuss happiness and hope tonight.” Founding Member of Adim Adim Itır Erhart stated, “Throughout my 10-year philosophy schooling, nice philosophers had been requested ‘What’s happiness?’ We mentioned their solutions to the query. After my first volunteering expertise, I noticed that the reply was in Aristotle’s idea of ‘happiness’. “The sense of “completeness” we really feel once we notice that we’re realizing our full potential and making a small contribution to the well-being of our species and different dwelling issues,” he stated.
Itır Erhart continued her speech as follows: “We had been hopeful once we had been dreaming of Adim Adim, establishing the system and setting objectives. I do not use the time period ‘hope’ as a form of passive optimism, Polyannaism, that even when we do nothing, every little thing will probably be tremendous. Quite the opposite, I’m speaking a few ‘hope’ that invitations particular person and collective motion in the direction of lowering earnings inequality, issues in accessing schooling and well being, fixing the local weather disaster, defending biodiversity and gender equality.”
Saying, “As a member of the staff that was deemed worthy of this award, bearing the title of Mustafa Koç, the esteemed one in all all of us, we’ll proceed to do higher works,” stated Adim Adim Founding Member İ. Renay Onur stated: “It’s a nice pleasure to be receiving this award, which I observe because the Oscar of sports activities in Turkey, with Adim Adim, which I’m proud to be the founding father of for 15 years. The life tales and achievements of the wonderful individuals who have acquired awards thus far present that solely particular individuals could be right here. He tells how Mustafa Koç and the Koç Household view sports activities. I liken these particular individuals to the north stars. I imagine that the inspiration that sports activities offers to the world drives the world and provides hope.”
I. Renay Onur used the next expressions in his speech: “With its runners, donors and beneficiaries, the Adim Adim Household has turn into a household of 1 million individuals in 15 years. Can the unifying energy of sports activities come to life higher? It’s a good proof of how sports activities can strengthen social solidarity. Step by Step made everybody really feel that they could possibly be an athlete, made everybody really feel like a hero, and made everybody really feel that they may change an issue in society by taking motion, not by complaining. Step by Step, it made chasing goodness turn into an idiom and introduced it to life.”
Danka Bartekova: “As an athlete, what issues to everybody in Turkey is to not rating objectives, run quicker, bounce greater or hit the goal; I’m grateful to Mustafa V. Koç, who jogged my memory that it’s to create a greater world by sports activities, for the values he left behind.”
In his speech on the ceremony, Nelson Mandela stated, “Sport has the ability to alter the world. Sport has the ability to encourage. Few issues have the unifying energy of sport. Reminding the phrases “Sport speaks to younger individuals within the language they perceive”, Olympic Shooter Danka Bartekova stated: “Right now, we perceive that athletes are rather more than perfection on the sports activities subject. athletes; advocates, ambassadors, position fashions… We see that younger individuals look to sports activities heroes greater than ever earlier than to study, take in their views and join. Sport actually has the ability to alter the world. I do know that Mustafa V. Koç realizes how essential that is and that’s the reason we’re right here at this time. As an athlete, what issues to everybody in Turkey is to not rating objectives, run quicker, bounce greater or hit the goal; I’m grateful to Mustafa V. Koç, who jogged my memory that it’s to create a greater world by sports activities, for the values he left behind.”
JURY
Hasan Arat, Vice President of the Turkish Nationwide Olympic Committee, Member of the Board of the European Olympic Committees
prof. Dr. Hülya Aşçı, Fenerbahçe College School of Sports activities Sciences, Bodily Training and Sports activities Instructing Lecturer Efe Aydan, Nationwide Basketball Participant, First Turkish Athlete Chosen to the European Combine
Turgay Demirel, FIBA Europe President, FIBA World Vice President, Member of the Board of Administrators of the Turkish Nationwide Olympic Committee, Honorary President of TBF
Oya Ünlü Kızıl, Board Member of İKSV, Suna and İnan Kıraç Basis, WWF, Entek and Bilkom
Mustafa V. Koç Sports activities Award Jury:
Koç Holding Board Member, Mustafa V. Koç Sports activities Award Jury Chairman Caroline N. Koç
Koç Holding Chairman of the Board Ömer M. Koç
President of the Turkish Nationwide Olympic Committee and Vice President of the Worldwide Olympic Committee Prof. Dr. Ugur Erdener
ABOUT STEP STEP
Established in 2008 with the intention of building solidarity between people and establishments by embracing social and ecological issues and taking motion by sports activities, Adım Adım, has been working to supply monetary and promotional assist to native, nationwide and worldwide initiatives for 15 years by sports activities that require endurance, particularly operating. It’s outstanding that greater than 120 thousand volunteer sports activities followers and greater than 1 million donors have created 130 million TL for greater than 100 NGOs for the reason that first day below the umbrella of the Step by Step Formation, which establishes and manages platforms that deliver collectively non-governmental organizations with volunteers.
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