He captain of the Turkish handball team, Cemal Kütahyahas died along with his 5-year-old son as a result of the earthquake that struck on February 6 to Turkey and Syriaas reported on Tuesday by the International Handball Federation (IHF).
“It is with deep sadness that we have learned of the death of Cemal Kütahya, captain of our men’s national handball team, and his son Çınar Kütahya, who were buried under the rubble of the house where they lived in the city of Antioquia,” said the Federation. Turkish Handball in a statement reproduced by the IHF.
Kütahya, 32 years old and also captain of the Turkish national team volleyball Beachwas a member of Hatay Büyükșehir Belediyespor, the current leader of the Turkish League, a club that the right-back joined in the summer of 2022 after a campaign at the Romanian CSU Suceava: his second international experience after passing through Al-Shamal of Qatar with which he was proclaimed champion of the Arab Champions League in 2020.
his wife, missing
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Kütahya’s wife, four months pregnant, as well as her mother-in-law, who lived at the same address, are still missing, the Turkish Handball Federation reported on its website.
Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 on the Richter scale shook southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, causing a figure of 35,000 deaths, according to the latest data provided by the Turkish Emergency Agency.
