Özet:

Ali Faik (Üstünidman) Mr. completed his first, secondary and secondary education in Mekteb-i Sultani and, when he graduated, began his job as the first Turkish body education teacher in the same school. During his teaching, Mr. Faik, who intensely gave his students instrumental gymnastics training, also played an effective role in the development of the gymnastics in our country and in time opened a private gymnasium to ensure that non-students also participate in sports activities. It is necessary in the school, but also in the private gym, among the students he educated are the Alibrandi Brothers, the champion of the international Olympics held in Greece, the world champion our fighter Kara Ahmet, the names of the Turkish sport, Ali Sami Yen and Selim Secret Tarcan. Ali Faik (Üstünidman) Mr. has another importance in terms of Turkish sports history is that he has written his first sports book in our country. In 1890, with his work called Gymnastics or Riyazat-i Body, he revealed the first example of sports publishing in our country. In addition to this, he has been an Istanbul journalist for sports newspapers and magazines published in France and Switzerland; he has also been one of the first pioneers of our sports press by writing articles on gymnastics to the Idman magazine, which is one of the first sports magazines of the period.

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