A group of 22 young people gathered on certain days of the week and did bodily exercises in the vicinity of Serencebey Be? Ikta? in autumn 1902 in the garden of the villa of Osman Pa? a, then the Medine Guard. The sports branches that these young people, who included the sons of Osman Pasha, Mehmet? Amil and Hüseyin Bereket and the youths from the neighborhood, Ahmet Fetgeri, Mehmet Ali Fetgeri, Naz? Mnazif, and Cemil Feti? Evket were high bar, parallel bar, wrestling, weightlifting and gymnastics. When the men of the Second Abdülhamit, the secret agents were afraid to go to any gathering activities because of political actions, heard of it, the exercise youths were taken to the police station after a raid. The tense situation was how some of the young people were close to palace officers and relaxed as they do not play football, which was in disfavor in those days, and it was clear that they not only physical exercises. In fact? Eyhzade Abdulhalim, relations with the palace, was supported these youths and began to practice frequently observed. Famous boxer and wrestler Kenan Bey came to the process and started to show wrestling and boxing tricks.
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