Semester Opening Speech of our Director of the Department

Our dear students of the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences at Istanbul Gelişim University School of Physical Education and Sport;
First of all, I would like to felicitate you from the deepest part of my heart for being a member of IGU family.

We have made FIT CAYE available for you, so that you may have a healthy life and increase your success level in your education. We have the honor to take good care of you, who are the hope of our future,  not only by education but also by enabling you to consume proper food on proper time.

Without any doubt, as our students you are aware of the importance of exercise and nutrition for your life and I hope that you remind their importance to the people around you too. On the other hand, I would like to repeat once again how serious is “exercise” for you, our dear students and for us, sport scientists working as academicians. We can say as one of the first aspects of “exercise” that it is an irreplaceable element of a healthy life. In the same time, exercise is a must for individuals who has a busy schedule at work or who has a sedentary lifestyle. We must exercise to optimize all our vital functions both physiologically and psychologically.

Unfortunately sedentary lifestyle is getting more frequent within our community. Another issue which increases very rapidly along this problem is obesity. When all these unflavored situations are taken into consideration, we need more and more individuals who had accurate education and who can teach properly the importance of exercise to the people, to make them adopt exercise as a lifestyle and on the other hand to teach them about necessary precautions to be taken against industrialized food sector and to maintain proper dietary habits.  One of the most fundamental purposes of our department is to meet this need and to educate individuals who are able to meet exercise need of our country’s people, all having very different characteristics, to guide them properly and to accept this social service as their duty, who are self-confident, ethical, contemporary, qualified and who adopted learning as their primary goal in life. You, our dear students, you have to improve yourself to achieve our purpose and also to become valuable individuals for our country and people.

I wish you all, our valuable students and our valuable academicians who are here to support you, as very successful spring semester for the academic year 2018-20169, and also wish you cordially a successful education and personal life.

                                                                             
   Director of the Department of exercise and Sport Sciences     
   Academician Dr. Haluk Saçaklı