Sursa MCP Press Agency - Niky Cotelici
R.I.P.
                " Irinel Barbu - Odihneste-te in pace, suflet bun
               O intamplare tragica l-a smuls dintre noi pe Campionul de Karate, Irinel Barbu, legitimat la CS Otopeni, care a decedat astazi, intr-un accident de masina.
              L-am urmărit cu drag... victorie după victorie. Am scris cu entuziasm si cu emoție despre ascensiunea si victoriile lui in karate, am asteptat rezultatele si l-am insotit cu ganduri bune si bucurie in fiecare competitie si am tresaltat la fiecare medalie castigata.
Dar nu mi-aș fi închipuit pentru nimic in lume ca imi va fi dat sa scriu aceste rânduri dureroase, cu lacrimi de disperare in ochi si cu atata deznădejde in suflet ... Nu vreau si nu pot sa accept... Odihneste-te in pace, copil bun si frumos|.
Condoleante familiei si putere sa suporte imensa durere...  "

Suntem  cutremurati  cu  totii  de  aceasta  intimplare  trista !

   We all wait with great expectation the celebration of these 52nd European Senior Championships 2017 in Kocaeli. The whole European family feels encouraged to come back to Turkey to enjoy all together the top European Karate annual event. These are our first European Senior Championships of an Olympic Karate and we all look forward to make in Kocaeli big celebrations of this historical success of our sport.
I also want to take this opportunity to recognize the work developed by the Turkish Karate Federation during so many years. It has been always an active and loyal member from the European and from the World Karate Federation and it has always made things easy inside a positive atmosphere of support and collaboration. With members like the Turkish Karate Federation it is easy to understand the outstanding progress experienced by the EKF along the years.
The allocation of this big Karate event to Turkey, to Kocaeli, is therefore something well deserved by the Turkish Karate Federation and I can say, without any doubt, that these 52nd European Senior Championships are going to be a new success of our sport in the Continent, a new success of the EKF thanks to the inestimable contribution of the Turkish Karate Federation.
Antonio Espinós
EKF President

              PASTE  FERICIT  !