Rector Prof. Dr. Sedat Murat, Dean of the Faculty of Sports Sciences and Director of the Application and Research Center for Combating Addiction Prof. Dr. Hürmüz Koç, Deputy Director Dietician Assoc. Prof. Dr. Günay Eskici, Provincial Director of Youth and Sports Ömer Kalkan, Deputy Secretary General Ayhan Monus, Board Members of the Application and Research Center for Combating Addiction, Oğuz Uyar, the first National Athlete from Çanakkale to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, and Athletics Coach Vijdan Berberoğlu attended the meeting.

In his opening speech, Center Director Prof. Dr. Hürmüz Koç stated that the center is a center established to protect individual and public health and take measures against the negative perception management created against the values of ethical and moral Turkish society, especially substance addiction. He said that our center entered into force after being published in the official gazette numbered 31214 on 04.11.2020.

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Hürmüz Koç said that we will contribute to the protection of our young people from harmful substances and fight against all kinds of addiction by carrying out tasks such as reducing and / or eliminating the risks of addiction with the lessons to be given in these activities by organizing conferences, seminars, summer-winter camps and training programs, especially sports organizations, together with our stakeholders and working groups.

 

 

 

After Dean Koç, national athlete Oğuz Uyar, who represented our country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, drew attention to the importance of sports in the fight against addiction and bad habits. He stated that his coach Vijdan Berberoğlu had a significant contribution to his success and thanked him and invited young people to sports and healthy living.

 

Provincial Director of Youth and Sports Ömer Kalkan stated that the Ministry of Youth and Sports plays an active role in the fight against addiction and that its service activities continue within the scope of service policies. Director Ömer Kalkan also takes an active role in raising awareness of young people against drugs with the seminars and trainings carried out by our Ministry all over Turkey, as well as the financial support it provides to non-governmental organizations. In this context, he stated that seminars, conferences and information meetings are held in cooperation with expert academics, Green Crescent, police directorates, provincial health directorates and non-governmental organizations on combating addiction in the institutions affiliated to the Ministry, youth centers, youth camps, dormitories of the General Directorate of Credit and Dormitories, Athlete Training Centers and Turkey Olympic Preparation Centers (TOHM).

 

He stated that Çanakkale Province is very lucky in terms of sports fields and facilities and that there are well-equipped sports facilities and football fields in the provincial center and villages. He said that the new facilities under construction will be put into service in December at the latest. Stating that they carry out the fight against addiction effectively, he said, "We will not surrender our young people to any form of addiction. Because this struggle is the struggle to protect Turkey's future."

 

ÇOMU Rector Prof. Dr. Sedat Murat in his speech; unfortunately, not only in Turkey but also in the whole world, there are problems with youth, this is not only today's issue, but also in the past, youth is an issue that has always been on the agenda. Many philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates have made complaints about youth.

 

   The youth of our age is both lucky and unlucky. There are technological developments all over the world today as never before and these developments negatively affect the social structure and psychological structure of young people. There is a very rapid change and this rapid change affects not only the age group called Generation Z but the whole society. Young people do not participate in family visits, there is a generation gap and there is a general tendency in youth behavior regardless of which family structure they belong to. In fact, family visits and such social circles are very important, they provide people with a control mechanism, self-control.