Traditional Turkish Archery Club

Hello, my name is Mehmet Akif Albayrak. I am a 3rd year student of Political Science and Public Administration at Social Sciences University of Ankara. At the same time, I am the president of the Traditional Turkish Archery Student Club. Our community was established in January 2019. The founding purpose of it is to convey our national and moral values ​​to our fellow students. In addition, it is to popularize our ancestral sport, Turkish Archery. Currently, about 80 to 100 people are receiving training here. Our trainings are given by expert, certified and licensed instructors. Last year, before the pandemic, we qualified to participate in two or three tournaments. In 2019, we started to receive our first trainings together with about 20 of our fellow students. Thus, we qualified to participate in the tournaments. Currently, 40 of our friends are actively taking archery training. Our aim is both to popularize archery and to achieve success in these tournaments. We want to make the name of our school known throughout the country and internationally. We have a training room in our school where we can shoot up to 40 meters. As you can see at our training facility, we do our training here. Besides here, we have a tent next to this place. Both we and other student societies can use it. They can do their own activities there. There is currently no national league between universities. But we participate in national and regional competitions organized by certain foundations or associations. Even though traditional Turkish archery is our ancestral sport, it is a newly developing sport in our country. I hope that such a league will be established in the near future. Our community is open to all fellow students. Along with the summer vacation, it provides training to both administrative and academic staff and their families. To join our community, it is enough to be a student of our school and follow our social media accounts. We would like to see you in the Traditional Turkish Archery Club. I wish success to all students who will take the exam. I hope we can see you both at our university and in our community.