Cemal Kütahya
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Cemal Kütahya (6 December 1990 – 6 February 2023) was a Turkish handball player. He was captain of the Turkey national team.
Death
Kütahya died alongside his five-year-old son, his pregnant wife and his mother-in-law[1] in Antakya when the complex he lived in, Rönesans Rezidans, collapsed in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake. He was 32.[2]
References
- ↑ Rowbottom, Mike (24 September 2023). "Handball mourns Turkish captain Kütahya, killed with his family in the earthquake". insidethegames. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Handball trauert um türkischen Kapitän Kütahya". kicker (in German). Retrieved 15 February 2023.
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Categories:
- 1990 births
- 2023 deaths
- People from Antakya
- Sportspeople from Hatay Province
- Turkish male handball players
- Victims of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
- Islamic Solidarity Games silver medalists for Turkey
- Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games
- 21st-century Turkish sportsmen
- Deaths due to building and structure collapses
- Turkish sportspeople stubs
- Asian handball biography stubs
- European handball biography stubs