100th Year of Altay Sports Club

Altay Sports Club was founded in order to reveal the Turkish awareness with the symbol of Altai Mountais in Izmir on the 16th January 1914.

The black and white colors of the club symbolizes our belief regarding our dark days of First Balkan Wars are to turn into white days and also express being together both in a rainy day and good day.

Altay Sports Club was founded by Vasıf Cinar, Mustafa Necati, Sukru Saracoglu and Nejat Evliyazade and it is the first Anatolian team to win the Turkey Cup. Altay Sports Club won the aforementioned cup twice and played in finals for seven times. Altay Sports Club which has participated in the Cup Winners Tournament and UEFA Cup is alsothe first sports club played in an away match in our country.

In the memory of 100th Year of Altay Sports Club which has been continuing its activities in many fields and is currently participating in football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, swimming and handball fields; four valuable commemoration stamps and First Day Cover(FDC) and a stamp portfolio including the aforementioned products were published by PTT.

100th Year of Altay Sports Club
100th Year of Altay Sports Club
Das 100. Jahr Des Altay Sport-Vereins
100eme Annee D'Altay Club Sportif

100th Year Of Birth Of Yasar Dogu

100th Year Of Birth Of Yasar Dogu

Yaşar Doğu who is the one of the most important sportsmen of turkish wrestling community was born in 1913 in Karlı Village of Kavak district of Samsun. He improved himself by doing karakucak in harvests and village weddings and became a wrestler. He entered to Güneş Wrestling Club in Ankara in the year of 1936 and participated in competitions on behalf of his club in Olympic wresting. He got into the National Team in the year of 1939.
Our national wrester, who has achieved countless victories both in country and out of country during his wresting career, became the World Champion in Helsinki World Freestyle Wrestling Championship in 1951.
Yaşar Doğu started to serve the Turkish wrestling as a coach after the year of 1952. He was deceased due to a heart attack in Ankara on 8 January 1961.
Yaşar Doğu is a wrestler whose strength admired by not only by Turkey but the whole world. His struggle and efforts to coach people for the sport of wrestling in our country is valuable as much as the championship he has achieved. During his sports life, he has only lost one match out of 47 Freestyle and Greco-Roman style and he was won 33 of 46 matches he has won with "fall".
At the centenary of his birth, the works regarding the transformation of his house in Emirli Village where he lived through his youth and adolescence years has been started by Hüseyin Aksoy, the Governer of Samsun.
A permanent postage stamp and first day cover of one value in commemoration of centenary of Yaşar Doğu, one of the most important people in Turkish sports history was put into circulation on the date of 23.12.2013