2011 WU Update: Universiade Event Truck Starts Travelling Turkey

ERZURUM – The excitement of  countdown for Erzurum 2011 will be spread troughout the country with the upcoming events. The countdown will start with the Universiade Truck travelling the country. The Universiade truck will tour the seven regions of Turkey. Enthusiasm of the Winter Universiade is aimed to be spread across the country with the planned events. Avea, the communication sponsor of the Games, will contribute in spreading the Universiade spirit  troughout the country. First stop of the Universiade Truck will be Taksim Square on December 8th at 09:00 am. A Torch Race will start from Tünel at 11:30, and will end at Taksim Square. Participants will be General Director of Youth and Sports Yunus Akgül, General Coordinator Bekir Korkmaz, İstanbul Provincial Director of Youth and Sports Tamer Taşpınar, Avea General Manager Erkan Akdemir and many famous athletes and celebrities as well as hundreds of university students are expected to take part as well. The Torch race will end with speeches from General Director of Youth and Sports Yunus Akgül and Avea General Manager Erkan Akdemir. The Universiade Truck will be visiting 19 provinces. Rock band Gripin will be performing concerts. During the events a variety of promotional products will be distributed to introduce Erzurum 2011 to the youth.

Universiade Event Truck and Torch Race Route

Istanbul Torch Race and Marmara University Gripin Concert (December8)
• Kocaeli University Events (December 9)
• Sakarya University Events(December 10)

 İzmir Torch Race and Ege University Gripin Concert (December 14)
• Aydın University Events (December 15)
• Muğla University Events (December16 )
• Denizli University Events (December17)

 Antalya Torch Race and Akdeniz University Gripin Concert (December 21)
• Konya University Events (December 22)
• Mersin University Events (December 23)
• Adana University Events (December 24)

Gaziantep Torch Race and Gaziantep University Gripin Concert (December 28)

Ankara Torch Race and Gazi University Gripin Concert (January 4)
• Samsun University Events ( January 6-7)

Trabzon Torch Race and BlackSea Technical University Gripin Concert
(January11)
• Sivas University Events (January 13-14)

Erzurum Consert (January18)
• Kayseri University Events (January 20-21)

Erzurum Torch Race

(Source: 2011 WU Media)