ANTALYA - Florencio Campomanes, the Honorary Chairman of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), has been injured in a traffic accident in Kemer town of Mediterranean city of Antalya, today.
Campomanes, who was in Kemer for FIDE Presidential Board meeting, departed from his hotel for Antalya Airport this morning. The minivan carrying Campomanes overturned on the Antalya-Kemer highway.
Florencio Campomanes was injured, and taken to Private Anadolu Hospital in Kemer.
He is in stable condition, however one of his ribs was cracked and he has slight bruises in his spinal cord and skull, doctors said.
79-year-old Campomanes was the President of FIDE between 1982 and 1995.