Content Analysis of News Which Came Out in Western Press on Koca Yusuf the Wrestler

Ancient Turks had a way of life on which hard life conditions were prevailing. One of the most important arguments actualized by current dynamics which guided to their lifes was no doubt the wrestling that was considered as an ancestral sport. This ancestral sport was the wrestling that arose from difficulty of way of life, was interiorized by daily life, and that was strengthened through national historical ideal and sense of Islamic jihad. In this context, sport is a means in defending nicenesses/beauties rather than an end/aim in Turkish cultural history. All of sports such as horse races, sword-shield, jereed, archery, wrestling, throwing lobut (cudgel/club), mace, spear etc. are for war preparation. These were elements for training, making the human strong bodily and spiritually while entertaining the human. Turkish wrestling which is considered as one of means of reaching to goodness, niceness/beauty and bravely has certainly identified with Turkish way of life. One of the most valuable characters of this ancestral sport which has identified with Turkish way of life is no doubt Koca (Great) Yusuf, known as the ‘‘Deliorman Turkish wrestler’’. Here our study aimed to address analytically news which came out in western press on Koca Yusuf the Wrestler who is one of legendary characters of the ancestral sport of wrestling which had arisen from traditions of Turkish cutltural history, and to analysis situation of this legendary Turkish wrestler’s period in the western imagination. During our study, we reviewed press and media organs, to which we accessed, of the period, and we revealed with which images westerners knew Koca Yusuf ‘the wrestler of the world’