Culture of Sports and Wrestling in Turkey

Sports appeared as a kind of game creates a skill, with the sense of a game, recreation, entertainment and breaking away from work five or six thousand years ago. Culture is a considerable quality and accumulation phenomenon. Sport culture identifies all kinds of values, products and behaviors related to sport. The objective of the sport policies in Turkey focus on supporting the whole scoiety to take on a habit of regular physical acitivity with a perspective of sport for everyone, contributing the wealth of society and individual through sport, improving socio-economic standarts, detecting talented kids and youngs. When Turkish is mentioned, warfare, military service and therefore wrestling come to mind. The Turks considered wrestling as a way of worship, the wrestling area as a temple, and the wrestling square as a soldier's square.