Category | Contributor Date of Birth | 29.03.1905 Date of Death | 09.04.1988 Country | Türkiye
Highlights
Started to play basketball during his scholar years in the German School (Deutsche Schule) of Istanbul
Member of the basketball and rowing teams of Galatasaray Sports Club, in Istanbul
International referee: called 79 international games, including the Final of the 1955 European Championship, in Budapest, between Hungary and Czechoslovakia
Member of the Technical Commission of FIBA: 1956-1976
Founder and President of the Turkish Basketball Federation: 1958-1964
Author of the “Techniques of Basketball Refereeing”, adopted as a guidebook by FIBA
Elected to the Executive Board of the Turkish Olympic Committee: 1968
Director of the Organizing Committee of the 1971 Mediterranean Games, in Izmir
Secretary General of the Turkish Olympic Committee: 1973-1982
Vice-President of the Turkish Olympic Committee
President of the Turkish Olympic Committee: 1982-1988
IOC Member since 1984
Distinctions & Recognitions
Since 1994, the Turkish Basketball Federation organizes the Turgut Atakol Tournament in his honor