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Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, has attached importance also onto sports activities as a complementary element to the Turkish Revolution in line with the objective to rise the Turkish Culture above the level of contemporary civilization, and even deemed all works and efforts to be done in this field as a vital and national service. Due to one of the benchmarks of the modernization movement, and as a result of efforts and studies that Atatürk personally interested in and directed, sports activities have started to keep place soon in the social and cultural life of the Turkish nation and the Turkish athletes have begun to get successful results in the international arena. Atatürk has made references on several occasions to the role of sport which played in raising the notion’s physical as well as intellectual capabilities, and has encouraged on this issue all authorities and concerned parties, mainly the Government of the Republic of Turkey in order that infrastructural works on this matter are to be accelerated. In this context the importance given by Atatürk on sports and athletes has been emphasized, and the efforts and studies carried out in this respect in the early years of the Republic constituting the basis of the organization, institutionalization and development process of sports in Turkey at the contemporary sense have been discussed in this article

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