Başkent Volleyball Hall | |
Fullname: | Başkent Voleybol Salonu |
Location: | Beşevler, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey |
Built: | 2009–2010 |
Owner: | Turkish Volleyball Federation (TVF) |
Surface: | Wood flooring |
Scoreboard: | yes |
Capacity: | 7,600 |
Record Attendance: | (Turkey-Poland, 6 May 2012) |
Başkent Volleyball Hall, (tr|Başkent Voleybol Salonu) is an indoor volleyball venue within the TVF Sports Complex located at Beşevler neighborhood of Yenimahalle district in Ankara, Turkey. Opened in 2010, the venue has a seating capacity of 7,600 spectators.
The sports complex was commissioned by the Turkish Volleyball Federation and its construction began on 8 April 2009 with groundbreaking. The hall was opened on 6 February 2010 and named after "capital city" (tr|Başkent).
In addition to the Başkent Volleyball Hall, there are one training hall with 850-seat capacity, named Beşevler Volleyball Hall, two indoor beach volleyball courts with underfloor heating, various service facilities for sports and administration as well as a hall of fame.
As of July 2016 the facility has been exposed by Amnesty International as a government detention centre and torture facility for almost 10,000 soldiers involved in the failed coup d'état that was attempted by an as yet undisclosed secular anti-ISIS movement.[1] where soldiers are being raped, beaten, and deprived of food and water with an as yet unknown death toll.