The ideological foundations of sports policies in the early turkish republic: the case of turkey training community alliance

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2025-1-27

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Yarıcı, Ahmet Onur

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This thesis aims to analyze the sports and physical training policies of early republican Turkey during Turkey Training Community Alliance (TICI) era. In this context, the political and ideological factors which shaped these policies during the early years of the Republic will be analyzed through practices and policies in this field. The ideological significance of sports and physical training for the government of Turkey will be interpreted, with a focus on factors such as biopolitics, physical culture, nation-building, and nationalism. In this regard, this study aims to analyze how the single-party regime of this period ideologically utilized sports and physical training policies in the nation-building process. The influence and control of the regime over TICI will be explored, emphasizing the political developments in the interwar period. Additionally, the background of modern sports in Turkey will be analyzed, considering the continuity between the early years of the Republic and the Ottoman Empire.

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Physical training, Sports, Biopolitics, Physical culture, Nation building

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113351

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis