Ahmet Muhtar Merter, also known as Ahmed Muhtar Bey (1 July 1891,

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– 2 October 1959, Istanbul) was a

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soldier, industrialist, sports official and politician.

Sports

Between 1957–1959 Ahmet Muhtar was the President or so called ''Ağa'' of the federation that organized the Turkish national sport

yağlı güreş Oil wrestling ( tr, Yağlı güreş), also called grease wrestling, is a traditional Turkish sport, where participants, called ''pehlivan'' (wrestlers) or ''baspehlivan'' (master wrestlers), wrestle while covered in oil. Competitions are held in ...

(oil wrestling).List of Ağas
(Turkish).

Legacy

In Istanbul the suburb Merter is named after him. A picture of him hangs inside the museum of the

Anıtkabir Anıtkabir is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish War of Independence and the founder and the first President of the Republic of Turkey. It is located in Ankara and was designed by architects Professor Emin O ...

. There is also an elementary school in Merter named after him.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Merter, Ahmet Muhtar 1891 births 1959 deaths Ottoman people of World War I Turkish people of the Turkish War of Independence