MUSTAFA İCLAL BAŞER ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

ZEYNEP ASYA ÇAĞLAYAN

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There was a Turkish family living in Bulgaria. They had a child whose name is Naim. He was thin but very strong. He was happy to show his strength. Always he carried all packages his mother bought from the bazaar. When he started to school, he was hardworking student. He was also glad to to show his strength in school. His friends were surprised with his strength. 

His mother and father were aware of his strength, and they wanted to get their son benefit from his strength in the future but they didn’t know how to do it. Naim’s father had a friend who was weight-lifter. He offered to help Naim to improve his strength. He wanted to make him a good sportsman. But his parents were ancious about this because being a weight-lifter needs to work so hard. 

That night they talked with him about hardness of being weight-lifter. But he was determined to be successful. He practiced so hard that at the age of 15 he became national sportsman who won many international races. In many races he broke the records ans he has named as “pocket Hercules”. He has become good example for Turkish youth. He knows that key point of being successful keep your dreams and work hard. 

The pocket Hercules is curious about the other sportsmen/women who have become successful in spite of struggles they faced. He wants to meet them and listen their stories. With this aim, he has made a research about them. He wants to start his travel with Şahika Ercümen who has become a successful diver in spite of her illness. He has called her about his wish for visiting her. He gets excited about these visiting and hits the roads.

SCHOOL: BASISKELE ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

NAME:YAPRAK BEBEK

Şahika Ercümen got a phone from Naim Süleymanoğlu who has named as pocket hercule. He wants to see and listen her story to tell and encourage young people. Şahika is very excited about telling her story. 

Underwater is so unique for Şahika ERCÜMEN that she expresses this feeling with the following words “

I find myself in a different place from the moment I go underwater .And when ı go deeper I feel the sea embracing me even more. Breaking records is nice but the most important thing for me is the way the sea make me feel. It's unparalleled. I guess my life didn't truly start when ı took my first breath. It started when I held it”.

Şahika was born january,1985. As a little child she was never scared of water, she loved it.Till the age of 7, she had to be continuously treated with medication... Then the doctors decided that she couldn't keep doing this for any longer.So,they have sent her to İstanbul. Her familiy consulted with medical proferssons and had all sorts of tests made. They found out that she had asthma allargies which is bronchial asthma.

Thankfully,when she was 12,the vaccination treatment was finished. She also finished her primary school at that time. That summer she wanted to join the Çanakkale underwater club. She attended the preparatory course for a few days. She told that the trainer really like her and would probably let her join the team directly. So without any kind of preparatory course she joined the Çanakkale underwater team 

From that day on...Apparently,she has allargies when she is not in the water...But underneath she is fine and very happy.She found her cure in the deep blue. Her mother says her Zodiac sign is fish and her child has also turned into one. 

Şahika, who has ‘allergic asthma’ as achild,overcomes this disease with the necessary vaccines and treatments and starts to engage in water sports with a great curiosity. Our record holder, who started to develop herself by entering the necessary amateur teams and groups, makes us proud by taking all her labor.

The pocket hercule is very excited from Şahika’s success despite her illness. He started to looking for new and young heroes. Şahika and Naim heard that İbrahim Çolak won a golden medal in artistic jimnastic and be a shampion of the World for the first time in our country’s history. So pocket hercule gets a phone call İbrahim Çolak, and hits the roads.

KOÇARLI ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

TURGUT AYDIN

Naim Süleymanoğlu was in İzmir/TURKEY TO see İbrahim Çolak.They met at gymnastic saloon,İbrahim was training.İbrahim Çolak brought the golden medal to Turkey ,He made it to rings final in the World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

Naim was wondering why he chose that sport which is not known so much.İbrahim started to tell his story.He was keen on gymnastic since he was a little boy.He struggled a loT to become succesful gymnast.

İbrahim Çolak became the first senior Turkish gymnast to win worlds .Turkey's record in gymnastics keeps improving thanks to a new generation of successful athletes.İbrahim is now tranining for Tokyo Olympics.He aims to bring golden medal to Turkey.

Naim was excited when he heard İbrahim'successes.Naim asked İbrahim if knew any one succesful like him from a foreign counrty,İbrahim thought and Serena Williams came into his mind.Naim decided to meet with her because he was in search of succes stories.

ASIMIN NESLİ ANATOLIAN RELIGIOUS HIGH SCHOOL

ÜNZİLE ÖZDEMİR

After visiting İbrahim ÇOLAK Naim SÜLEYMANOĞLU called Serena WILLIAMS and he said he wanted to listen to her success story.Serena was pleased to become acquainted with a successful sportsman and she was also very excited for telling her story.

When they met Naim saw a very strong sportswoman.After he learned that Serena was groomed for a tennis career from the age of three years old by her father he thought that Serena's success is not a chance.Serena's father was her trainer and her mother was also a tennis trainer.

Serena WILLIAMS was born on 26th of September,1981 in Saginaw,Michigan,The USA.Her full name is Serena Jameka Williams.When she was fourteen years old,she started to play tennis professionally.In 1999 she won her first Grand Slam at the USA open era.

In 2005 she was chosen the best seventeenth player of last forty years by a tennis magazine which was famous worldwide and she became the number one in a very short time.

Over the course of her career,she won a record 23 Grand Slam singles titles,beginning in 1999 with U.S Open title.Her most recent victory came with the 2017 Australian Open.When she surpassed Steffi Graf's record for most wins in the Open era.

Finally ,Serena mentioned Naim about Simona HALEP who is also a very successful tennis player.Now Naim is very excited about the Simona's story so he rolled up his sleeves to listen to her story.

Turcoianu Teodora

Liceul Teoretic „Edmond Nicolau”

When Serena have a call from Naim Süleymanoğlu to meet her, she get very excited and accept to meet. she is waiting with curiosity for meeting with Naim who is one of the most powerful and famous weight-lifter. an meeting day has arrived. They meet in Romania's biggest tennis court. also Naim is excited about meeting a hardworking and determent tennis player and he is looking forward to hear her story. she started to tell her story.

I have been ranked world No. 1 in singles twice between 2017 and 2019. In total, I have been No. 1 for 64 weeks, which ranks tenth in the history of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings.I was the year-end No. 1 in 2017 and 2018. I have finished each year ranked no lower than No. 4 since 2014 and has the longest active streak of being ranked in the top 10. I have won 19 WTA singles titles and has finished runner-up 17 time. I won two Grand Slam singles titles: the 2018 French Open and the 2019 Wimbledon Championships.

The first significant victory came in 2008 with a junior semi-final at the Australian Open and in May 2008, Iwon two junior tournaments: ITF 10,000 in Bucharest and the Trofeo Bonfiglio tournament. Four months before turning 18, I climbed to the highest level in the Junior world rankings with the Roland Garros junior title.

I’m maturing, I’m no longer a child. I’m 27 years old and I’ve been through a lot in all these years. I feel ready for life. My trust in myself increased, so I started to be different. We all change with the passing of years. I cannot stay the same as a few years ago, especially since I am very eager to learn. I always knew what I intended, I knew what I wanted to do with my life, but I had a few issues regarding the communication side. Now it’s easier for me and I’m trying to be even better. In the end, the meaning of life is to see how good you can be in all chapters.

ABDULLAH ÇAĞLAYAN

DARENDE ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

DARENDE/MALATYA

Naim has admired to her determent and he has felt as if he saw his own youth . he tell this to her but she has said that if you want to meet a person more determent than me you should turn your own country because the person I have told is a weight lifter like you. He is Rıza Kayaalp.

The pocket Hercules is curious about Rıza KAYAALP’s story who has become successful in spite of struggles he faced. He wants to meet Rıza and listen his stories. With this aim, he went to Ankara. Rıza is very excited about telling his story.

I was born on October 10, 1989 in Kavurgalı, village of Yozgat as the sixth and last child of working family. After primary school education, I started wrestling in 2000 Yozgat Education Center under supervision of Aydın Dal, Mustafa Doğan and Mustafa Başer.

I won my first international medal in Albania in 2005 defeating all rivals as Stars European Champion. The same year I was transferred to Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Aski Sports Club. After graduating from high school, I attended Aksaray University the school of sports and graduated from this school.

I won the silver medal at the 2007 World Junior Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship in Beijing. I passed the first round of the 2008 Summer Olympics, lost 3-1 from his competition with his Lithuanian rival Mindaugas Mizgaitis in the 2nd round and bid farewell to the Olympic Games. At the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, the grekoromen style became the Mediterranean Champion in 120 kg. 

I won the 2009 Junior European Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship in Tbilisi. 2009 World Junior Wrestling Championship held in Ankara, grekoromen style 120 kg.da World Youth Champion. He returned to the 2009 World Wrestling Championship in Herning bronze medal in Turkey. I won the 110 kg gold medal in the 28th International Vehbi Emre Greco-Roman Wrestling Tournament.

At the 2011 World Wrestling Championship held in Istanbul, the grekoremen style I won the gold medal at 120 kilograms. At the 2012 European Wrestling Championship in Belgrade, Serbia, the grekoromen style, I won the 120kg gold medal. In the 2012 Summer Olympic Games held in London, England, the grekoromen style I won the bronze medal at 120 kilograms. 

 In the 2015 European Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the grekoromen style I won the gold medal at 130 kg. In the final match of the championship in the Latvian capital Riga, the Turkish wrestler faced with Ukrainian Oleksandr Chernetskyy, beating my opponent with a score of 2-2, and reached the gold medal. Ukrainian Chernetskyy remained in the silver medal.

The pocket hercule is very excited from Rıza’s story. He started to looking for new and young heroes. Naim heard that Sümeyye Boyacı. So pocket hercule gets a phone call Sümeyye, and hits the roads.

BERNA ERGÜN

TOKİ ŞEHİT İKRAM CİRİT

ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

VERY EXCITED TO GET CALL FROM NAIM SULEYMAN OĞLU,SUMEYYE BOYACI STARTS TELLING HER LIFE:I WAS BORN IN ESKISEHIR WITH A SAD STORY.WHEN I WAS BORN I HAD NO ARMS AND I HAD HIP DISLOCATION.ALTHOUGH NOT HAVING ARMS,I HAVE WINGS:)

I LEARNED TO WRITE WITH MY FEET IN THE FIRST GRADE AT A SPECIAL SCHOOL.AT THE AGE OF 4,I STARTED LEARNING PAINTING WITH MY FEET AND ACHIEVED MANY SUCCESSES

 I made a picture for the Turkish translation of Alexander Pushkin's famous book Golden Fish.My painting was presented to President Abdullah Gül during his visit to Russia.In 2009 my watercolor works were exhibited in Moscow.

I decided to begin with swimming as I carefully watched the fish in my aquarium, and

discovered that they swim without arms. 

I have been coached by Mehmet Bayrak since 2012.

In June 2016, I competed at the 30th International German Championships in Berlin.I internationally debuted in the senior class in 2016.

I was qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and represented my country in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I failed to capture any medal. I took part at the 2017 European Para Youth Games held in Liguria, Italy, and won the bronze medal in the 50 m Backstroke S1-5 event.

In 2019, I captured the gold medal in the 50 m Backstroke S5 event at the World Para Swimming World Series held in Indianapolis, USA with a time of 45.28.At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London, U.K., I won the silver medal in the 50 m backstroke S5 event with a time of 44.74

ASIMIN NESLİ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ FEN VE SOSYAL BİLİMLER PROJE OKULU

HATİCE YAVAŞ KARAGÖZ

After this conversation,Sümeyye Boyacı wanted to help Naim Süleymanoğlu to find an inspirational character.Chelsia Werner came to her mind.Naim wondered about this person.He called her and told her that he wants to know her life story.

Chelsea became very happy to hear this and she told her life story.Chelsea Werner was born with down syndrome.She 's been doing gymnastics since she was 4.But it was not easy.She had a bone problem because of her disease.Chelsea's teacher told her she couldn't do gymnastics but that didn't stop her from succeeding.She won championship 4 times at the Special Olympics National Gymnastics Championships.Also she won the World Championships twice.

And she says,"I always feel gymnastics as a part of my life.I think gymnastics trained me extremely.I think that every new skill in gymnastics takes a long time to do and sometimes it takes a year."

Chelsea Werner thinks that people with down syndrome are not adequately represented."The more represented,the more people will see how talented we are."

Then Chalsea Werner decides to be a model.She believes that she has conquered her fears since she started modeling and that she can draw attention by creating the greatest awareness in this field.

Next time Chelsea had the opportunity to appear in some big campaigns.Chelsea ,even more popular after this events,appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue.With an impressive success story,Chelsea Werner believes that she will make patterns in the fashion industry.

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Halet Çambel is one of the last eye witnesses of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's revolution. "

She herself absolves middle and secondary grade in the high school for girls in Arnavutköy, where her family has moved into a spacious Köşk (Form of Villa), made of red wood on the Bosporus. 

She herself absolves middle and secondary grade in the high school for girls in Arnavutköy, where her family has moved into a spacious Köşk (Form of Villa), made of red wood on the Bosporus. 

I, myself absolves middle and secondary grade in the high school for girls in Arnavutköy, where my family has moved into a spacious Köşk (Form of Villa), made of red wood on the Bosporus. At least then it was situated directly on the sea front, nowadays a noisy big motorway is dividing it from the water. 

Since moving here in 1930 I started to train fencing at the nearby English spoken Robert-College. As a fencer taking part in the Berlin Games in 1936, I was one of the first Turkish women participating in Olympic Games. This brings an unusual turn in my life. 

For the Turkish fencers the 1936 Olympic adventure ends without medals. Nevertheless through their participation the young girls give the world an impression about how much the country has changed.

"I am Halet Çambel. This is my life..."

Naim Süleymanoğlu was fascinated with the story of Halet Çambel. Halet Ç. mentioned him about another woman who never gave up struggling with difficulties. After saying goodbye Naim Süleymanoğlu went on meeting comic strip like him. Now it is time to meet Yasemin Adar...

LULEBURGAZ TİCARET VE SANAYİ ODASI BİLİM VE SANAT MERKEZİ

ARZU FİDAN

After Halet Çambel, now it is time to know another successful sportswoman. She is Yasemin Adar.

Yasemin Adar Becomes First Woman to Win Gold Medal in Wrestling

Winning the gold medal in the 2017 World Wrestling Championship, Yasemin Adar has become the first woman to win a gold medal in wrestling in Turkey.

Competing in the 75 kg division in the 2017 World Wrestling Championship, Yasemin Adar has won the gold medal, becoming the first woman wrestler in Turkey to hold the world championship.

In the finals of the 2017 World Wrestling Championships held in France's capital city of Paris, Adar defeated her opponent Vasilisa Marzaliuk from Belarus with a score of 5-4 and won the gold medal.

Adar is also the first woman wrestler in Turkey who made the finals in a world championship.

Yasemin Adar was born on December 6, 1991 in Balıkesir / Turkey. After finishing Gaziosmanpaşa High School, she studied physical education and sports in Balıkesir University. Currently, she works as a teacher in Niğde in Central Anatolia.

Adar met the former Turkish champion sport wrestler Aslan Seyhanlı while she was competing in shot put during her high school and university years. She then switched over to wrestling in her hometown. She competes for Trakya Birlik Sport Club.

2 LO Kwidzyn

Our teachers:

Agnieszka Stefanowicz

Ewa Chwiędacz-Feluś

Michał Kubiak

Is a Polish volleyball player, a member of Polish national team and Japanese club Panasonic Panthers, a participant of the Olympic Games (London 2012, Rio 2016), 2014 and 2018 World Champion, a gold medalist of the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2011 World Cup, bronze medalist of the 2011 European Championship and the 2011 World League.

Born 23 February 1988 (Currently 31 years old)

Kubiak was first selected to represent the Polish national team by coach Andrea Anastasi in 2011. With the Polish team, he won three medals in 2011 - silver at the World Cup and two bronzes at the World League and the European Championship. He was a gold medalist at the World League 2012 in Sofia, Bulgary. On 16 August 2014 he was selected to the Polish squad at the World Championship held in Poland. On 21 September 2014 Poland won the title of World Champion 2014. On 27 October 2014 he received a state award granted by the Polish President Bronisław Komorowski, the Gold Cross of Merit for outstanding sports achievements and for promoting Poland across the world.

On 30 September 2018 Poland achieved title of the 2018 World Champion. Poland beat Brazil in the final 3-0 and defended the title from 2014. Kubiak received an individual award for the Best Outside Spiker and he was one of the main players in the team.

Michał Kubiak was told many times that he would never become a receiver because of his height, He’s not a short person in general he’s about 1.90 meter which is pretty tall for a Polish person but he wasn’t tall enough to become a receiver so everyone else told him to become a Libero. He never gave up on his dream, he didn’t care that others were saying what he could become or not. Thanks to his hard work and determination he achieved his goal . In 2011 Kubiak was admitted to the Polish Volleyball Representation as a receiver. And now he’s a well known and respected captain of his team.

Karol Bielecki

Sportsperson who had to overcome serious difficulties to succeed is Karol Bielecki.

He's a famous hand-ball player, who has lost his eye in the match with Croatia in 2011.

During the match an opponent put his finger in his eye.

Everyone thought that he's going to end his career, but he returned to game after one month.

Since then he became three-time Polish champion.

Karol never gave up

In an interview about his coming back to sport after a dramatic injury about resilience and life in which nothing is everlasting Karol Said:

I could have lied down and cried. I could have started drinking alcohol, but I thought that would be pathetic. Yes, that’s right I don’t have one eye, but I still have the other one

Achievements

PGE Vive Kielce

Polish Superliga: 2002–03, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18

Cup of Poland: 2009

EHF Champions League: 2015–16

EHF Cup: 2006–07

SC Magdeburg

EHF Cup: 2006–07

Individual

Topscorer of the men's handball tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (55 goals)

OSMANİYE ÖZEL EĞİTİM MESLEK OKULU

Hatice SEVÜK

Having to overcome serious difficulties to be successful, athlete Karol Bielecki suggested Naim Süleymanoğlu to listen to Semih Sayginer's story. 

Naim Suleymanoglu art in Turkey, sports and science, given the importance of better Turkey's best snooker players to be understood, one of the world's best billiards player Semih Saygıner.il the sight and story telling to be successful in istedi.hayat "despite" motto on the construct of " Of course, these moments are not as easy as I have told, but you are having very difficult times. ”

Semih Sayginer, who is as colorful and fluent as the show, and uses a style from the public, states that the hidden gems should be exposed confidently while giving advice on how Turkish young people should stand in front of European people, and continues his story

I was born in Adapazar on November 12, 1964. My interest in billiards started in high school. My first success was 1st place in the Istanbul Billiard Championship I attended in 1981. Italian Longoni, the world's largest cue manufacturer, was produced on behalf of Semih SAYGINER, to be sold all over the world

The athlete, known with the nicknames “Mr.Magic” and “The Turkish Prince” in the World Billiards community, has 42 special beat techniques that have been transferred to the billiard literature under his name.

He receives invitations from universities and private organizations as a speaker with his success story and speaks many languages. “He was acting in the Olive Branch, Haci, Singles and Aşk Yakar series. He said that he is still interested in acting and music as well as his professional sports life, and is taking part in projects in these fields

Semih Saygıner ; He said that the story of a 17-year-old wrestler being the champion and getting the title of "Wrestler of the Century"(Hamza YERLİKAYA) for the first time on the world mattresses could be exciting

HAMZA

YERLİKAYA

OİB MTAL - ORHAN ÇAY

His family was originally from Sivas, but they moved to Istanbul three months prior to Hamza's birth. His father Mustafa Yerlikaya is also a wrestler but was no longer active by the time Hamza was born. He started wrestling at age of 11 encouraged by his father and inspired by his elder brother Muttalip Yerlikaya who is also a wrestler with international success.

Hamza Yerlikaya's first international competition was in 1991 World Cadets Wrestling Championships in Quebec, Canada, in which he got the fourth place. His first senior international event was the 1993 European Wrestling Championships in Istanbul where he got the second place, losing to Thomas Zander in the finals.

He surprised some of the spectators who thought this was a coincidence by winning the gold medal in 1993 World Wrestling Championships in Stockholm, 

Sweden at the age of 17, and hence becoming the youngest ever World Champion in wrestling.

As his age allowed, in some years he participated in seniors, juniors as well as cadets events. He won the World Championship again in 1995 and went on to win his first Olympic gold medal in Atlanta 1996 at the age of 20. 

He repeated his success four years later in Sydney 2000 and carried the flag for Turkey at the Sydney 2000 opening ceremony. Since then he has won three more World Championships (2002, 2003 and (at 96 kg) 2005). He has won the European Seniors Championship eight times (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2006).

He was named The Wrestler of the century in 1996 by the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA).

Chelsea Werner's popularity is increasing day by day.Naim Süleymanoğlu liked this story very much.Naim Süleymanoğlu heard a success story from Turkey. Nur Tatar Askari.

ERZINCAN ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

Gül Doğan & Project Team

Now it's time to meet the final guest from Turkey. A successful sportswoman Nur Tatar Askari, appeared in a cafe where Naim and she decided earlier.

Nur Tatar Askari is the only Turkish female athlete who won a medal in two Olympic games.

Nur Tatar, who won the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics, took the third place at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Nur Tatar took her place in the World and European championships, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Turkey expects to get a medal from Olympics.

Nur Tatar Askari (born August 16, 1992 in Van, Turkey) is a world and European champion Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the feather, light and welterweight divisions.She is of Kurdish descent. She was a member of the TSE Sports Club in Ankara before she transferred to Ankara İller Bankası. She is coached by Cüneyt Gülçek.

Nur Tatar won her first medal at the age of 15. She won twice the European Junior Taekwondo Championships, and reached to gold medals in A-class tournaments in Europe.

She won the silver medal at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics where she won the silver medal at 67 kg. At the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey she became gold medalist.She qualified again for olympics at 2016 where she won a bronze medal at 67 kg. She got married in 2017 to a former member of Iran national taekwondo team Mehran Askari. After Nur had told her life and success story, Naim talked about his dream.

Naim: Dear Nur, I've met lots of successful people during my trip and listened to their success stories. I want to do something for them.

Nur: That's very kind of you. Why don't we collect all of their stories in a book and use the biggest network to present this book to million of students from all around Europe.

Naim liked this idea very much. He impressed by her success and also her young beautiful mind. She helped him to make his dream come true.

They decided to publish an eTwinning Project Book about the success of all these wonderful athletes from all over the world.