Ä°smail Ogan
İsmail Ogan (5 March 1933 – 26 April 2022) was a Turkish freestyle wrestler and coach. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. He also collected three medals at the world championships between 1957 and 1963. Wrestling career İsmail Ogan came from the province (Elmalı) of Antalya on Turkey's southern Mediterranean coast. After Turkish yağlı güreş (oil wrestling) style, which he started with, he switched to Olympic wrestling at the age of 17, after he was discovered by Yaşar Doğu. It did not take long for him to attract the attention of the leading men in the Turkish wrestling federation by performing very well in the national arena. He was included in the national freestyle wrestling team and received perhaps the best Turkish wrestling coaches of the time in Yaşar Doğu Yaşar Doğu (1913 – 8 January 1961) was a Turkish wrestler. He competed in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, winning gold at the Olympic, wor ...
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Antalya
Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Taurus Mountains. The urban population of the city is 1,335,002 (Konyaalti, Kepez, Muratpasa), with a metropolitan population of 2,722,103.2011 Census
Turkish Statistical Institute (Büyükşehir belediyeleri ve bağlı belediyelerin nüfusları) – 2011 The city was formerly known as Attalia and was founded in around 200 BC by King
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