Structuring of Sports Associations During Ataturk Period and Their Activities

Year 2021, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 137 - 147, 26.03.2021

Ozer Yıldız Serdar Uslu Mehtap Yıldız

Abstract

Ataturk’s views and intellection of sports in the period when the Republic was founded, not
only for the governments of that time, but also maintain the same value and validity today, are
the opinions and basic principles that advanced countries still apply in sports and backward
countries have to apply. With the declaration of the Republic, it was deemed necessary to
consider sports as a cultural and physics action of the country, to reveal the national sports
philosophy, to arouse interest in sports in Turkish nation, to traditionalize sports, to make a
mass action. The aim of this study is along with the proclamation of the Republic to reveal the
phases of the associations that contribute to the development of Turkish sports in the State of
the Republic of Turkey under the leadership of Ataturk and their services to Turkish sports.
The study has been evaluated through the document analysis technique which is one of the
qualitative research designs. As a result of the study, it has been concluded that Alliance of
Training Community of Turkey, Turkish Sports Association and General Directorate of
Physical Training, organized between 1923 and 1938, contributed to the development of
Turkish sports despite their many shortcomings.

Keywords

Ataturk, association, Republic

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