To read summary of the press release held in Ankara in 22 April 2009, please click 'read more' below.

Also video footage (in turkish and english) from the said press conference is available at this url:
http://www.holigan.com.tr/n.php?n=gelibolu-uclu-uluslar-hentbol-turnuvasinin-tanitimi-ankarada-yapildi--2009-12-22

Gallipoli Tri Nations Tournament Press Conference Has Been Held

The “Gallipoli Tri Nations Tournament”, an initiative of the Turkish Handball Federation,
which will be organized in Canakkale on 21-23 April 2010, with the participation of
Australia, New Zealand and Turkey was announced publicly in Ankara.
Mr. Tarık Cengiz as the president of the Turkish Handball Federation (THF), Mr. Peter
Doyle, as the Australian Ambassador to Turkey, and Mr. Llevellyn Robert as the Acting
Ambassador of New Zealand to Turkey participated in the press conference which was held in
Crown Plaza Hotel.
President of the THF, Mr Tarık Cengiz who spoke in the conference, drew the attention to the
fact that this will be first tournament to be organized among the countries. “Our aim in this
tournament is to commemorate our ancestors who fought 95 years ago” said the president.
President Cengiz expressed their intention to institutionalize this tournament saying; “The
tournament will be organized in Canakkale on 21-23 April 2010, with the participation of
Senior Men’s National Handball Teams of the 3 countries. We are planning to institutionalize
this tournament and repeat the same organization every year in April. We also would like to
lead the preparations to organize a more comprehensive tournament in 2015, which would
cover all sports branches.”
In his speech, the Australian Ambassador Mr. Peter Doyle said that the three nations share a
special history due to the battle in Canakkale. Mr. Doyle, who expressed their happiness for
having about the tournament, said “The Head Coach of the Australian National Handball
Team told me that they are looking forward to this tournament. Turkey is in a better
condition in Handball, when compared to us. We are ready to challenge New Zealand. The
tournament is a big opportunity for us. I also would like to congratulate the Turkish Handball
Federation regarding the tournament logo.”
In the conference, the New Zealand Acting Ambassador Mr. Llevellyn Robert stressed that
both countries prioritized their relations with Turkey and said; “The relations started with the
battle and turned into a friendship. This tournament will be in a friendly atmosphere. We
have received our membership status in the International Handball Federation in this year.
Thus, handball may be regarded as relatively new in our country. Besides, we would be glad
to play against Australia and Turkey in this tournament.”

The logo of the “Gallipoli Tri Nations Tournament” logo was appreciated by the representatives of the guest countries.
The logo features the Ottoman tulip, New Zealand silver leaf, and a flower peculiar to Australia.
MESSAGE FROM TARIK BATGUN
The note sent by Mr K. Tarkan BATGUN, the General Director of the gutto.biz company
which is the concept and logo sponsor of the “Gallipoli Tri Nations Tournament”, and who is
also the Chairman of the “Gallipoli Tri Nations Committee” is as follows:
"We are living the happiness of our hard work as the "Gallipoli Tri Nations Tournament
Committee" and as a company gutto.biz also. We have been campaigning for our new
tradition since 2005 in order to bring the unique friendship which was born from the
battlefields of Gallipoli to another level with Australia and New Zealand. The acronym of the
gutto.biz is "Gallipoli İnternational Trade Representation & Organisation". As you can
understand from our company name, Gallipoli and its friendship is very important to us. Since
our inception, we have been working very hard to advance on our friendship by encouraging
three Nations to have more relationships in sports field. There is no other relationship like
ours in the world. That's why we need to work even harder and hand to hand. We wish to
spread the "Gallipoli Tri Nations Tournament" tradition to other sports codes and hope to
celebrate our bond in 2015 like the "Olympics". As gutto.biz we will also work towards
establishing a high performance camp centre in Eceabat, and we want the three Nations to
camp together every year, learn from each other and excel together. Constant camps and
competitions will create strong rivalry which will make three nations even more stronger and
provide more gold medals. We hope the Gallipoli Tri Nations Tournaments bring more
success to our National Teams and our Nations. While we are congratulating Turkish,
Australian and New Zealander Handball Federations to come together in our new tradition,
we would like to also forward our respect to Australian and New Zealand Ambassadors for
their support."