Ankara Zen Spor Kulübü

About Ankara Zen Spor Kulübü

Ankara Zen Spor Kulübü is an archery club in the Mutlukent neighbourhood of Çankaya, on the Ankara.com Ümitköy district page, which trains archers of all ages. It also posts as Zen Okçuluk on Instagram. The club was founded on 24 September 2022 by seven people from Hacettepe University, and its coaches have six years of archery experience. It aims to spread archery as a professional discipline rather than only a hobby, to bring new talent into the sport and to offer a modern training space for archers who want to compete, including licensed athletes who could represent Turkey nationally and internationally. The name reflects the club approach: drawing on the Japanese view of archery as training of the mind, it treats the sport as a discipline of focus and coordination, and says its coaches follow international archery literature and technical developments. The club keeps posting about its activities, and in June 2026 it offered every child bringing a school report card a free one-hour basic archery session as a first experience. Practical notes: the website gives opening hours of 13:00 to 21:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and at weekends, with the club closed on Monday and Thursday. Contact the club by phone or WhatsApp to arrange a lesson.