The Turkish Nation, from the moment it entered the pages of history, means a society that has created sports and has existed through sports.

The sports epic, which began thousands of years ago with the Hun Turks, has continued to grow in value in many states founded by our ancestors, becoming a crowning glory in the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires, and has continued to grow on thousands of years of accumulated knowledge in the Republic of Turkey. Throughout this adventure, our ancestors' passion for sports has heeded neither impossibilities, nor invasions, nor wars...

For our ancestors, periods of war are times when athletes unflinchingly transfer their strength from the field of competition to the battlefield. Throughout history, this nation's athletes have rushed into battle with the awareness and even excitement that when it comes to their homeland, defeat will be experienced not by losing a match, but by drinking the sherbet of martyrdom. With this courage, they have etched incredible epics into the pages of history.

That is why every war our ancestors fought is the war of a nation that draws strength first from faith and then from training, a nation that is, at its core, an athlete. In other words, the war fought by the Turks is, in essence, the Athletes' War..."