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Leading sports sponsor and multiple award winner in the aviation industry, Turkish Airlines, on Friday, showcased its unique Naija experience for passengers departing from Nigeria at the Aviation Day to celebrate the 87th anniversary of the prestigious Ikoyi Club 1938.
The Aviation Day was sponsored by Turkish Airlines.
General Manager of Turkish Airlines in Nigeria, Lokman Balkan, who led the Turkish Airlines team and Sales Operations Manager, Abdelhakim Cakar, amongst others revealed the brand’s special offerings to passengers from Nigeria.
Balkan said: “Turkish Airlines now offer Nigerian foods including Jollof rice and others in our flights departing from Nigeria. Our Inflight Entertainment System also has various Nollywood movies for our valued passengers”.
Turkish Airlines has been operating in Nigeria from 2006 with daily flights from Lagos and 5 flights per week from Abuja.
The airline serves more destinations non-stop from a single airport than any other airline in the world and flies to 131 countries, more than any other airline.
It has been a member of the Star Alliance network since April 1, 2008.
In recognition of its global recognition and outstanding performance, Turkish Airlines has been decorated with numerous awards. These include Guinness Record for operating the most destinations and Skytrax Award as the Best Airline in Europe.
The brand is recognized as a 5-star airline by APEX and won Best Inflight Entertainment System” in Europe for 2023, highlighting its comprehensive digital platform, “Planet,” which offers a wide array of movies, TV shows, music, and games with an improved user interface
About Turkish Airlines
Since starting on May 20, 1933 with five planes: two five-seat Curtiss Kingbirds, two four-seat Junkers F 13s and one ten-seat Tupolev ANT-9 and fewer than 30 employees, the brand has grown to become the airline flying to the most countries in the world.
In 1947, the first international flight took off from Istanbul to Athens.
Sports Sponsorship
Turkish Airlines has since identified football as a strategic tool for expansion and has engraved its name with exciting world-renowned sponsorships as well as advertisements.
It has been the official carrier of several European football clubs such as Galatasaray, Manchester United, FC Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund, Olympique de Marseille, Aston Villa, FK Sarajevo, and Hannover 96.
Top stars like Lionel Messi, Kobe Bryant, Caroline Wozniacki, Kevin Costner, Wayne Rooney, and Didier Drogba have signed sponsorship and promotion deals with the airline.
The company has been the primary sponsor of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague since 2010, and was among the sponsors of the FIBA World Championship.
On 22 October 2013, Turkish Airlines and Euroleague signed an agreement to prolong their existing sponsorship deal by five years until 2020.
Turkish Airlines is the sponsor of the Turkish Airlines Open, a European Tour golf tournament played annually in Turkey since 2013.
Turkish Airlines was the kit sponsor of Galatasaray for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League and Bosnian club, FK Sarajevo.
Since then, the airline has continued its sponsorship of Galatasaray and has also been the kit sponsor for the European campaigns of other Turkish clubs such as Trabzonspor and Başakşehir.
On December 10, 2015, Turkish Airlines and UEFA signed a sponsorship deal for the UEFA Euro 2016, becoming the first airline sponsor of UEFA European Championship tournaments.
A new deal was signed on September 14, 2018, as Turkish Airlines and Lega Basket Serie A, the top-tier professional basketball league in Italy, signed a sponsorship agreement, making the airline an official partner for the 2018–19 LBA season.
In February 2019, Turkish Airlines arranged to become partial sponsors for League of Ireland First Division side, Drogheda United.
And in August 2019, Turkish Airlines reached an agreement with Club Atlético River Plate to become the main sponsor of the Argentine sports club for the next three seasons.
Prior to the start of the 2022–23 season, Turkish Airlines becomes the official global sponsors of the UEFA Champions League and the Super Cup, UEFA Youth League and the Futsal Champions League for the remainder of the 2021–24 cycle after UEFA agreed to sponsor in the next two seasons
The brand also sponsors Golf, Cycling, Equestrian, Volleyball and Handball
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About Ikoyi Club 1938
On September 29, 1938, Ikoyi Club 1938 officially came into being through the merger of the European Club and Lagos Golf Club.
The Incorporation was entrusted to three nominated trustees namely, Sir Donald Kingdom, Henry Stewart, and David Duncan Gibb. The European Club was first located on the site of what was later known as the Ikoyi Hotel which was then Ikoyi Government Guest House, also known as the Catering Rest House. The Lagos Golf Club moved from 18, Race Course Road to the present location in 1927, and at one time occupied the land on which the old Federal Secretariat Ikoyi now stands.
Long after the amalgamation of the European Club and the Lagos Golf Club, the Ikoyi Club 1938 remained essentially an “expatriates club” run by top European Civil Servants and members of the business communities.
The Ikoyi Club 1938 has since metamorphosed from its European only membership into one of the best examples of multiracial clubs in the world with membership drawn worldwide.
