Authors : Gokhan Caliskan , Mehmet Goral and Ibrahim Yildiran
Abstract: The physical activities of Turks during prepration to war depending on war tools and combat tactics, according to their individual and social value judgments and beliefs are traditional sports. They change according to the war tools and war tactics. These branches are shaped especially around archery, horse-riding and wrestling. This research is constructed more on why these traditional sports are played rather than how these traditional sports are being played. In the study, the philosophy of traditional sports for consideration, in order to describe the subject, topics which reflect the life philosophy, subjects that Tirkish society praised and taken into consideration are included. There is a specific kind of human understanding, human description in the philosophy of traditional sports. In this description, the combatant and "well-mannered" human portrait is mostly highlighed. The philosophy of traditional sports gives important information about the structure and characteristics of Turkish cultures and civilizations. The Turkish society which reflects their life philosohyof living to their sports undersign very big successes in the history. The aim of this study, is to give meaning to our lives as successors of an origin which ownes such a philosophy and to highligt the necessity to lay claim to and protect this heritage for mental and physical health.
Gokhan Caliskan , Mehmet Goral and Ibrahim Yildiran , 2008. Philosophy of Some Turkish Traditional Sports. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 5: 710-721.