Mehmet Akif Üstündağ to serve third term as Turkish Volleyball Federation President

As a result of the elections held in conjunction with the 6th Ordinary General Assembly of the Turkish Volleyball Federation (TVF), Mehmet Akif Üstündağ will be serving a third consecutive term at the helm of the organisation.

Mehmet Akif Üstündağ and Gökhan Dinçer competed for the presidency at the General Assembly held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ankara. Üstündağ emerged victorious from the elections after receiving 121 votes out of the 218 cast by the delegates in attendance. Mr Dinçer, on the other hand, received 95 votes and two votes were deemed void.

Alper Sedat Aslandaş, Ersin Yılmaz, Mustafa Alpaslan, İlker Dinçay, Altuğ Erim, Zeynep Aydınlar Eröğüt, Abdurrahim Yıldız, Simge Gündüz, Hasan Semih Oktay, and Bahar Mert join Mehmet Akif Üstündağ as members of the TVF Board of Administration.

Üstündağ said he was happy to have secured re-election and wished the best for Turkish Volleyball. “This story has many threads. There are clubs behind the success of Turkish Volleyball. Our support for the clubs will continue to grow. The Federation is nothing without the clubs. We have always been proud of our clubs, and we will continue to be proud of them,” he said.