MUSTAFA İCLAL BAŞER ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

ZEYNEP ASYA ÇAĞLAYAN

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There was a Turkish family living in Bulgaria. They had a child whose name is Naim. He was thin but very strong. He was happy to show his strength. Always he carried all packages his mother bought from the bazaar. When he started to school, he was hardworking student. He was also glad to to show his strength in school. His friends were surprised with his strength. 

His mother and father were aware of his strength, and they wanted to get their son benefit from his strength in the future but they didn’t know how to do it. Naim’s father had a friend who was weight-lifter. He offered to help Naim to improve his strength. He wanted to make him a good sportsman. But his parents were ancious about this because being a weight-lifter needs to work so hard. 

That night they talked with him about hardness of being weight-lifter. But he was determined to be successful. He practiced so hard that at the age of 15 he became national sportsman who won many international races. In many races he broke the records ans he has named as “pocket Hercules”. He has become good example for Turkish youth. He knows that key point of being successful keep your dreams and work hard. 

The pocket Hercules is curious about the other sportsmen/women who have become successful in spite of struggles they faced. He wants to meet them and listen their stories. With this aim, he has made a research about them. He wants to start his travel with Şahika Ercümen who has become a successful diver in spite of her illness. He has called her about his wish for visiting her. He gets excited about these visiting and hits the roads.

SCHOOL: BASISKELE ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

NAME:YAPRAK BEBEK

Şahika Ercümen got a phone from Naim Süleymanoğlu who has named as pocket hercule. He wants to see and listen her story to tell and encourage young people. Şahika is very excited about telling her story. 

Underwater is so unique for Şahika ERCÜMEN that she expresses this feeling with the following words “

I find myself in a different place from the moment I go underwater .And when ı go deeper I feel the sea embracing me even more. Breaking records is nice but the most important thing for me is the way the sea make me feel. It's unparalleled. I guess my life didn't truly start when ı took my first breath. It started when I held it”.

Şahika was born january,1985. As a little child she was never scared of water, she loved it.Till the age of 7, she had to be continuously treated with medication... Then the doctors decided that she couldn't keep doing this for any longer.So,they have sent her to İstanbul. Her familiy consulted with medical proferssons and had all sorts of tests made. They found out that she had asthma allargies which is bronchial asthma.

Thankfully,when she was 12,the vaccination treatment was finished. She also finished her primary school at that time. That summer she wanted to join the Çanakkale underwater club. She attended the preparatory course for a few days. She told that the trainer really like her and would probably let her join the team directly. So without any kind of preparatory course she joined the Çanakkale underwater team 

From that day on...Apparently,she has allargies when she is not in the water...But underneath she is fine and very happy.She found her cure in the deep blue. Her mother says her Zodiac sign is fish and her child has also turned into one. 

Şahika, who has ‘allergic asthma’ as achild,overcomes this disease with the necessary vaccines and treatments and starts to engage in water sports with a great curiosity. Our record holder, who started to develop herself by entering the necessary amateur teams and groups, makes us proud by taking all her labor.

The pocket hercule is very excited from Şahika’s success despite her illness. He started to looking for new and young heroes. Şahika and Naim heard that İbrahim Çolak won a golden medal in artistic jimnastic and be a shampion of the World for the first time in our country’s history. So pocket hercule gets a phone call İbrahim Çolak, and hits the roads.

KOÇARLI ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

TURGUT AYDIN

Naim Süleymanoğlu was in İzmir/TURKEY TO see İbrahim Çolak.They met at gymnastic saloon,İbrahim was training.İbrahim Çolak brought the golden medal to Turkey ,He made it to rings final in the World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

Naim was wondering why he chose that sport which is not known so much.İbrahim started to tell his story.He was keen on gymnastic since he was a little boy.He struggled a loT to become succesful gymnast.

İbrahim Çolak became the first senior Turkish gymnast to win worlds .Turkey's record in gymnastics keeps improving thanks to a new generation of successful athletes.İbrahim is now tranining for Tokyo Olympics.He aims to bring golden medal to Turkey.

Naim was excited when he heard İbrahim'successes.Naim asked İbrahim if knew any one succesful like him from a foreign counrty,İbrahim thought and Serena Williams came into his mind.Naim decided to meet with her because he was in search of succes stories.

ASIMIN NESLİ ANATOLIAN RELIGIOUS HIGH SCHOOL

ÜNZİLE ÖZDEMİR

After visiting İbrahim ÇOLAK Naim SÜLEYMANOĞLU called Serena WILLIAMS and he said he wanted to listen to her success story.Serena was pleased to become acquainted with a successful sportsman and she was also very excited for telling her story.

When they met Naim saw a very strong sportswoman.After he learned that Serena was groomed for a tennis career from the age of three years old by her father he thought that Serena's success is not a chance.Serena's father was her trainer and her mother was also a tennis trainer.

Serena WILLIAMS was born on 26th of September,1981 in Saginaw,Michigan,The USA.Her full name is Serena Jameka Williams.When she was fourteen years old,she started to play tennis professionally.In 1999 she won her first Grand Slam at the USA open era.

In 2005 she was chosen the best seventeenth player of last forty years by a tennis magazine which was famous worldwide and she became the number one in a very short time.

Over the course of her career,she won a record 23 Grand Slam singles titles,beginning in 1999 with U.S Open title.Her most recent victory came with the 2017 Australian Open.When she surpassed Steffi Graf's record for most wins in the Open era.

Finally ,Serena mentioned Naim about Simona HALEP who is also a very successful tennis player.Now Naim is very excited about the Simona's story so he rolled up his sleeves to listen to her story.

Turcoianu Teodora

Liceul Teoretic „Edmond Nicolau”

When Serena have a call from Naim Süleymanoğlu to meet her, she get very excited and accept to meet. she is waiting with curiosity for meeting with Naim who is one of the most powerful and famous weight-lifter. an meeting day has arrived. They meet in Romania's biggest tennis court. also Naim is excited about meeting a hardworking and determent tennis player and he is looking forward to hear her story. she started to tell her story.

I have been ranked world No. 1 in singles twice between 2017 and 2019. In total, I have been No. 1 for 64 weeks, which ranks tenth in the history of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings.I was the year-end No. 1 in 2017 and 2018. I have finished each year ranked no lower than No. 4 since 2014 and has the longest active streak of being ranked in the top 10. I have won 19 WTA singles titles and has finished runner-up 17 time. I won two Grand Slam singles titles: the 2018 French Open and the 2019 Wimbledon Championships.

The first significant victory came in 2008 with a junior semi-final at the Australian Open and in May 2008, Iwon two junior tournaments: ITF 10,000 in Bucharest and the Trofeo Bonfiglio tournament. Four months before turning 18, I climbed to the highest level in the Junior world rankings with the Roland Garros junior title.

I’m maturing, I’m no longer a child. I’m 27 years old and I’ve been through a lot in all these years. I feel ready for life. My trust in myself increased, so I started to be different. We all change with the passing of years. I cannot stay the same as a few years ago, especially since I am very eager to learn. I always knew what I intended, I knew what I wanted to do with my life, but I had a few issues regarding the communication side. Now it’s easier for me and I’m trying to be even better. In the end, the meaning of life is to see how good you can be in all chapters.

ABDULLAH ÇAĞLAYAN

DARENDE ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

DARENDE/MALATYA

Naim has admired to her determent and he has felt as if he saw his own youth . he tell this to her but she has said that if you want to meet a person more determent than me you should turn your own country because the person I have told is a weight lifter like you. He is Rıza Kayaalp.

The pocket Hercules is curious about Rıza KAYAALP’s story who has become successful in spite of struggles he faced. He wants to meet Rıza and listen his stories. With this aim, he went to Ankara. Rıza is very excited about telling his story.

I was born on October 10, 1989 in Kavurgalı, village of Yozgat as the sixth and last child of working family. After primary school education, I started wrestling in 2000 Yozgat Education Center under supervision of Aydın Dal, Mustafa Doğan and Mustafa Başer.

I won my first international medal in Albania in 2005 defeating all rivals as Stars European Champion. The same year I was transferred to Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Aski Sports Club. After graduating from high school, I attended Aksaray University the school of sports and graduated from this school.

I won the silver medal at the 2007 World Junior Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship in Beijing. I passed the first round of the 2008 Summer Olympics, lost 3-1 from his competition with his Lithuanian rival Mindaugas Mizgaitis in the 2nd round and bid farewell to the Olympic Games. At the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, the grekoromen style became the Mediterranean Champion in 120 kg. 

I won the 2009 Junior European Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship in Tbilisi. 2009 World Junior Wrestling Championship held in Ankara, grekoromen style 120 kg.da World Youth Champion. He returned to the 2009 World Wrestling Championship in Herning bronze medal in Turkey. I won the 110 kg gold medal in the 28th International Vehbi Emre Greco-Roman Wrestling Tournament.

At the 2011 World Wrestling Championship held in Istanbul, the grekoremen style I won the gold medal at 120 kilograms. At the 2012 European Wrestling Championship in Belgrade, Serbia, the grekoromen style, I won the 120kg gold medal. In the 2012 Summer Olympic Games held in London, England, the grekoromen style I won the bronze medal at 120 kilograms. 

 In the 2015 European Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the grekoromen style I won the gold medal at 130 kg. In the final match of the championship in the Latvian capital Riga, the Turkish wrestler faced with Ukrainian Oleksandr Chernetskyy, beating my opponent with a score of 2-2, and reached the gold medal. Ukrainian Chernetskyy remained in the silver medal.

The pocket hercule is very excited from Rıza’s story. He started to looking for new and young heroes. Naim heard that Sümeyye Boyacı. So pocket hercule gets a phone call Sümeyye, and hits the roads.

BERNA ERGÜN

TOKİ ŞEHİT İKRAM CİRİT

ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

VERY EXCITED TO GET CALL FROM NAIM SULEYMAN OĞLU,SUMEYYE BOYACI STARTS TELLING HER LIFE:I WAS BORN IN ESKISEHIR WITH A SAD STORY.WHEN I WAS BORN I HAD NO ARMS AND I HAD HIP DISLOCATION.ALTHOUGH NOT HAVING ARMS,I HAVE WINGS:)

I LEARNED TO WRITE WITH MY FEET IN THE FIRST GRADE AT A SPECIAL SCHOOL.AT THE AGE OF 4,I STARTED LEARNING PAINTING WITH MY FEET AND ACHIEVED MANY SUCCESSES

 I made a picture for the Turkish translation of Alexander Pushkin's famous book Golden Fish.My painting was presented to President Abdullah Gül during his visit to Russia.In 2009 my watercolor works were exhibited in Moscow.

I decided to begin with swimming as I carefully watched the fish in my aquarium, and

discovered that they swim without arms. 

I have been coached by Mehmet Bayrak since 2012.

In June 2016, I competed at the 30th International German Championships in Berlin.I internationally debuted in the senior class in 2016.

I was qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and represented my country in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I failed to capture any medal. I took part at the 2017 European Para Youth Games held in Liguria, Italy, and won the bronze medal in the 50 m Backstroke S1-5 event.

In 2019, I captured the gold medal in the 50 m Backstroke S5 event at the World Para Swimming World Series held in Indianapolis, USA with a time of 45.28.At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London, U.K., I won the silver medal in the 50 m backstroke S5 event with a time of 44.74

ASIMIN NESLİ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ FEN VE SOSYAL BİLİMLER PROJE OKULU

HATİCE YAVAŞ KARAGÖZ

After this conversation,Sümeyye Boyacı wanted to help Naim Süleymanoğlu to find an inspirational character.Chelsia Werner came to her mind.Naim wondered about this person.He called her and told her that he wants to know her life story.

Chelsea became very happy to hear this and she told her life story.Chelsea Werner was born with down syndrome.She 's been doing gymnastics since she was 4.But it was not easy.She had a bone problem because of her disease.Chelsea's teacher told her she couldn't do gymnastics but that didn't stop her from succeeding.She won championship 4 times at the Special Olympics National Gymnastics Championships.Also she won the World Championships twice.

And she says,"I always feel gymnastics as a part of my life.I think gymnastics trained me extremely.I think that every new skill in gymnastics takes a long time to do and sometimes it takes a year."

Chelsea Werner thinks that people with down syndrome are not adequately represented."The more represented,the more people will see how talented we are."

Then Chalsea Werner decides to be a model.She believes that she has conquered her fears since she started modeling and that she can draw attention by creating the greatest awareness in this field.

Next time Chelsea had the opportunity to appear in some big campaigns.Chelsea ,even more popular after this events,appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue.With an impressive success story,Chelsea Werner believes that she will make patterns in the fashion industry.

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Halet Çambel is one of the last eye witnesses of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's revolution. "

She herself absolves middle and secondary grade in the high school for girls in Arnavutköy, where her family has moved into a spacious Köşk (Form of Villa), made of red wood on the Bosporus. 

She herself absolves middle and secondary grade in the high school for girls in Arnavutköy, where her family has moved into a spacious Köşk (Form of Villa), made of red wood on the Bosporus. 

I, myself absolves middle and secondary grade in the high school for girls in Arnavutköy, where my family has moved into a spacious Köşk (Form of Villa), made of red wood on the Bosporus. At least then it was situated directly on the sea front, nowadays a noisy big motorway is dividing it from the water. 

Since moving here in 1930 I started to train fencing at the nearby English spoken Robert-College. As a fencer taking part in the Berlin Games in 1936, I was one of the first Turkish women participating in Olympic Games. This brings an unusual turn in my life. 

For the Turkish fencers the 1936 Olympic adventure ends without medals. Nevertheless through their participation the young girls give the world an impression about how much the country has changed.

"I am Halet Çambel. This is my life..."

Naim Süleymanoğlu was fascinated with the story of Halet Çambel. Halet Ç. mentioned him about another woman who never gave up struggling with difficulties. After saying goodbye Naim Süleymanoğlu went on meeting comic strip like him. Now it is time to meet Yasemin Adar...

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