Tunceli Youth and Sport Provincial Directorate

Tunceli Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports is one of the 81 Provincial Directorate affiliated to the provincial organization of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Of The Republic of Turkey. Our Provincial Directorate is the provincial practitioner of our Ministry’s duties to conduct the necessary work in order to determine the policies that support the personal and social development of youth, to provide young people with the opportunity to realize their own potential by taking into account the needs of different youth groups, to develop recommendations to ensure effective participation in all areas of social life with decision-making and implementation processes and to carry out activities in this direction, to ensure coordination and cooperation in youth-related services of relevant institutions, to conduct youth work and projects, supporting these work and projects, overseeing their implementation and results, and monitor the execution of sports activities within the framework of the plan and program and in accordance with the legislation, take measures to encourage its development and dissemination. As our institution is affiliated to the Ministry of Youth and Sports, it has all the necessary facilities The main activities we carry out are divided into two: youth and sports. There are a total of 22 sports facilities affiliated to our Provincial Directorate. One of these facilities is the an athlete camp training center (for 50 people), there are two water sports centers located in our Pertek District and the Central District, and rafting sports can be actively performed at both facilities. As Tunceli Youth and Sports Provincial Directorate, there are 19 active clubs and 782 active athletes under our supervision. Tunceli has a very beautiful nature, the Munzur River and the Pülümür Stream. The Munzur River has parkours suitable for the sport of rafting. Tunceli, which also hosted the 2019 World Rafting Championships and received about 800 athletes from 20 countries, has the necessary infrastructure in the field of rafting.