TTSG’s Mission

Nations are manifestations of the common past and accumulations that bind individuals together. Traditional sports and games are one of the most important elements of these accumulations and common past. Yet in our age, traditional sports and games are facing the danger of extinction. If no preventions are taken, the uniformization that extremely massive modern sports and games have caused will force traditional sports and games onto a course it can’t turn back from. This course first poses the threat of minimizing and impoverishing the diversity of traditional sports and games and then of destroying them completely. From this perspective the important responsibility of protecting, developing, and conveying this common culture of nations and humanity to future generations has been placed upon us.

TTSG (Traditional Turkish Sports and Games Application and Research Center), which views the preservation, development, and maintainability through various activities of traditional sports and games passed down from generation to generation as a social responsibility based on the reality that each branch of traditional sports and games has its own internal value, sees the need to be organized at all levels (local, regional, national, and global) in the field of sports and games. While on one hand an institution centralized under a single roof is considered necessary for regulating and popularizing traditional sports and games, on the other hand it is necessary for ensuring cooperation and standardization among organizations at various levels. TTSG has emerged as a result of these evaluations.