Sport in Turkey 

      “Only a healthy body has a healthy head” says a famous Turkish proverb. Especially nowadays, we understand how important sport is. Because the number of illnesses is increasing day by day. The more people go away from sports, the more they have bad behaviours.

       In our school we have important successes in some sport categories; such as swimming, football, basketball and handball. We are improving ourselves step by step.

       The most popular sport in Turkey is football. Turkish national teams are struggling with the strongest teams in the world and are getting more and more successful results. For example; in the 17th FIFA World Cup in 2002 our team became the third best team of the world.  In 1999–2000 season, Galatasaray won the UEFA title and the super cup in the ‘’European Champion League’’ .

      By the way, wrestling (especially oil wrestling)  is another national sport in Turkey. We have many European and world champions. This sport is very traditional as it has been practiced since the Ottoman Empire and have a history of more than 400 years.
    
     And we have also distinguished ourselves in weight-lifting

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