Monday, July 30, 2012

Turkish freestyle wrestlers at the 2012 Olympics




Ahmet Peker  55 kg

Ahmen was born in İskilip, Çorum Province, Turkey. Maybe he was born in this villaage:


 I expect the home folks are plenty proud of him.

Ahmet's record and medal history are


Ahmet Peker
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
BornNovember 4, 1989 (age 22)
İskilip, Çorum Province, Turkey
Height1.62 m (5.3 ft)
Weight58 kg (130 lb)
Sport
SportSport wrestling
Event(s)Freestyle
ClubBursa Büyükşehir Belediyespor Club in Bursa
Coached byİsmail Faikoğlu








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Güreş-Dünyanın en iyi güreşçisi Peker
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Ramazan Şahin  66 kg

Ramazan is of Chechen origin and is based in stanbul.  Per Wikipedia, he was born in "Dagestan of the Russian Federation, he emigrated in 2005 to Turkey with the help of his uncle İshak İrbayhanov, manager of the Turkey national freestyle wrestling team. . . .  He is a member of the Tekelspor wrestling club."

Here is Ramazan's medal and record history:

Ramazan Şahin
Personal information
Birth nameRamzan Irbaikhanov
(Рамзан Ирбайханов)
NationalityTurkish
BornJuly 8, 1983 (age 29)
Hasav-Yurt, Chechen Respublic,Russian Federation
ResidenceIstanbul, Turkey
Height1.70 m (5.6 ft)
Weight66 kg (150 lb)
Sport
SportFreestyle wrestling
Event(s)66kg
Clubİstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K.




Turkeys Ramazan Sahin (top) competes against Ukrains Andriy Stadnik in the 66kg weight category of the mens freestyle wresting gold medal match during the Olympic games in Beijing, China, 20 August 2008. Sahin won the gold for the event. EPA/HOW HWEE YOUNG
Turkey's Ramazan Sahin (top) competes against 
Ukrain's Andriy Stadnik in the 66kg weight category of the 
men's freestyle wresting gold medal match during the Olympic games in 
Beijing, China, 20 August 2008.
 Sahin won the gold for the event. 
EPA/HOW HWEE YOUNG




Gündem, Şahin'den altın madalya




İbrahim Bölükbaş  84 kg

İbrahim was born in the Altınbaşak village of Pasinler district in Erzurum Province, Turkey.  No picture has been posted on the Web of İbrahim's home village.  He is now  a member of Şekerspor Club in Ankara, which is also home, along with the more famous Erbil, to Kirkpinar,featuring Turkish Oil Wrestling.  Here are the most interesting and dramatic images I have ever ween of that fesstival.

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Here is İbrahim's medal and record history:


İbrahim Bölükbaşı
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
BornDecember 1, 1990 (age 21)
Pasinler, Erzurum Province, Turkey
Height1.87 m (6.1 ft)
Weight87 kg (190 lb)
Sport
SportSport wrestling
Event(s)Freestyle
ClubŞekerspor Club, Ankara
Coached byNasrullah Baysal



TGF - 84 KG İBRAHİM BÖLÜKBAŞI ELENDİ


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Serhat Balcı  96 kg

 Serhat is a member of the Sancaktepe Belediye S.K. in Sancaktepe, Istanbul  

Here is Serhat's record and medal history:


Personal information
NationalityTurkish
BornMarch 15, 1982 (age 30)
Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight96 kg (210 lb)
Sport
SportSport wrestling
Event(s)Freestyle wrestling
ClubSancaktepe Belediye SK


Güreşçimiz Serhat Balcı Gümüşte Kaldı
Güreşcçi Serhat Balcı'nın ödül isyanı
 Son Dakika Haberleri
This interesting photograph is about a protest of some sort, but I have no Turkish and the computer translator is unable to work well enough for me to make sense of it.



Turkey's Serhat Balcı (R) and Nauruz Temrezov of Azerbaijan compete during the men's 96kg freestyle wrestling. REUTERS photo
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Taha Akgü  1120 kg

Taha is a student of physical education and sports at the Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in Karaman.  His history and medal record is

Taha Akgül
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
BornNovember 22, 1990 (age 21)
Sivas, Turkey
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight120 kg (260 lb; 19 st)
Sport
SportOlympic wrestling
Event(s)Freestyle wrestling
ClubAnkara ASKİ
Turned pro2010
Coached byAbdullah Çakmak


Haber: Taha Akgül Avrupa Şampiyonu
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Syria and the Horrible Saudis: potential developments

The New York Times on Sunday and Monday, June 29 and 30, 2012, carried conflicted, confusing, and disturbing information about developments in Syria.  All quotations are from the Times.
 Most members of Syria’s Alawite, Christian and Kurdish minorities, along with a slice of its Sunni Arab population, still prefer Mr. Assad to what they fear will follow his fall; together, those groups make up perhaps half of Syria’s population, the rest of which is largely Sunni Muslim. [Emphasis added.]

 I'm beginning slowly to be drawn into preferring Assad's murderous regime:
Significantly, most of the money flowing to the Syrian opposition is coming from religious donors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf region whose generosity hinges on Salafi teaching. [Emphasis added]
• • • 
The commander in Saraqib said that when he invited jihadists into his military council, they rejected several proposed names for the expanded group that included references to Syria. “They consider the entire world the Muslim homeland, so they refused any national, Syrian name,” he said. [Emphasis added.]

 More hopefully,
An activist helping to organize the Syrian military councils said there were roughly 50,000 fighters in total, and far fewer than 1,000 were foreigners, who often have trouble gaining local support. “If there were 10,000, you would know, and less than 1,000 is nothing,” said the activist, Rami. . . . 

So perhaps the Horrible Saudis will not prevail, and the threat of their prevailing is enough to frighten me, were I a Kurd, to support the Unspeakable Assad regime.
[T]the aim of diplomacy should be to devise a post-Assad power-sharing arrangement that all sides could sign on to.
• • •

There are reasons to hope that Russia and Iran would join the bargaining. Both wish to rebuild their damaged prestige in the Arab world, and Iran is concerned about the fate of more than a million Shiite Muslims in Syria.

 I think Russia's and Iran's reasons are different from those stated in the article, and I agree that  they, and Turkey, have good reason to resist Saudi influence over Syria.  The two articles are almost silent about Turkey's role, which I think is important.  I would like to see Turkey, Russia, and Iran join in establishing a moderate, more-or-less democratic Syria, free of Saudi influence.

 And that will require Israel to behave. 

 Here are images of Salafistists at work, posted on the web within the last week:








These are Salafi in Algeria:  

 I know Christians whom I love.  Perhaps I could love a Salafi, ere he not trying to kill me.

 This is a quotation from Monday's Times article, with no antecedent nor citation:
(Mainline Qaeda ideology calls for a Pan-Islamic caliphate.)

 That is, in a way, a wonderful dream, one that might well invite me, if I were young, hung, and full of cum -- and Islamic. 

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Japan freestyle wrestlers for 2012 Summer Olympics

Briefly,

Shinichi Yumoto  55 kg


















Kenichi Yumoto  60 kg


Mot of these and other Japanese images are from the most admirable Zimbio








An Indian wrestler, Yogeshwar Dutt, is defeated by Yimoto in this match













Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu  66 kg


























Sosuke Takaya  74 kg

Google shows no image or information for Takaya. Perhaps the name is misspelled.



T akao Isokawa  96 kg













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