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The Wrestler Guide
The wrestlers to join into the wrestling contests need to know the rules
and the regulations about the wrestling.
The wrestlers to join the greased wrestling contests must have their
licenses. For the juniors the medical certificate is enough. The licenses
are vised every year. The ones who are providently brought to The
Discipline Committee, who are penalized and got their licenses revocation
cannot wrestle anywhere until their penalties have ended. For 15 year old
wrestler, their picture must be on their certificates of birth. The ones
over 40 years cannot join the wrestling.
The wrestlers who are 40 years old can wrestle in the first class
category, traditional, local or Kırkpınar wrestling according to the
decision of The Central Arbitration Committee.
The Greased Wrestling Contest Regulations
First Section
Aim, Scope, Basis and Definitions
Aim
Article 1: The aim of these regulations is to guarantee that the greased
wrestling which serves as a source to the wrestling on mat will be
performed under the rules.
Scope
Article 2: These regulations include the arbitraments which set the
related procedures and the basis about the duty, authority and their
responsibilities, technical game, travel ratios and the reward in all the
greased wrestling organizations to be held on the country level by Turkish
Wrestling Federation.
Basis
Article 3: The regulations are set on the basis of the article 10 of The
Law about The Organization and Jurisdiction No: 3283 of The Youth and
Sports Department.
Definitions
Article 4: This declares that:
Head Office: The Youth and Sports Department,
Federation: Turkish Wrestling Federation,
Referee Committee: Turkish Wrestling the Greased Wrestling Central
Arbitration Committee,
Action Committee: The top committee of the greased wrestling committees,
Science and Training Committee: The greased wrestling training committee,
Technical Committee: The greased wrestling technical committee,
Health Committee: The greased wrestling health committee,
Federation Organization Committee: The organization committee which
provides the national and the international greased wrestling contests,
Region Organization Committee: The committee which is established by the
committees organizing the greased wrestling,
Representative: The person, who represents Turkish Wrestling Federation in
the contest,
Youth and Sports Provincial Chairman: The governor,
Youth and Sports County Commissioner: The district governor,
Agha: The person, who undertakes the spiritual patronage of the
organization to be arranged,
Announcer: The person, who introduces the wrestlers according to their
categories by telling poems,
Local Organizations: The organizations to be held periodically by the
organizations,
First Class Organizations: The organizations to be held every 3 years,
Traditional Organizations: The organizations which are held every 5 years
and advance to the traditional ones,
Second Section
Certificate of Authority
The certificate of Authority arranging the greased wrestling, the
Declaration and the Written Contract
Article 5: The public organizations, The city halls, Socially Serving
Clubs, The unions, The Anniversary Celebrations, The Committees holding
Feasts can organize the greased wrestling contests within the framework of
the provisions of The Regulations provided that They have to get The
Certificates of Authority for the greased wrestling organizations from
Turkish Wrestling Federation. The political parties and their other
branches cannot organize the greased wrestling contests.
 a) In the case that more than one artificial people who have consulted to
Turkish Wrestling Federation through the channel of The Youth and Sports
Provincial Managers demand for organizing, The Federation is authorized
for the choice and the determination.
1) Turkish Wrestling Federation gathers every year on December to set the
dates of the greased wrestling organizations and the certificate of
authority are received from The Federation by the related organization
committee on January.
2) The applications for Historical Kırkpınar, the first class and the
local class wrestling are done to The Youth and Sports Provincial
Directorate at least 30 days before the contests. It is obliged that the
applications with the needed documents shall be sent to The Federation.
Otherwise, there cannot be any contests.
3) Within the period of the historical Kırkpınar greased wrestling, no
certificate of authority shall be given to any organizations in Turkey.
4) For the wrestling contests to be done in the village wedding feast, the
permission from the related The Youth and Sports Provincial Managers is
enough. In these weddings feast, there cannot be any ticket selling and
agha selection. The assigned referees are charged by the provincial
referee committee or the provincial wrestling representative and are
informed to The Federation.
5) In the same provinces, two or more traditional organizations cannot be
got permission. The authorized one to give the certificates of authority
for the first class or local organizations is The Federation.
b) On the basis of the total of the monetary rewards for the wrestlers in
the greased wrestling organization while the application for the
certificate of authorized is being done, the 10 per cent of that money is
paid into the account of The Federation. It is obliged that the receipt,
as attached to the application paper for the certificate of authority, is
presented. But, the paid money cannot be cut from the monetary rewards.
The rewards of the local, the first class and the traditional wrestling
are reported to The Provincial Managers every year. 10 per cent of the
total of the monetary rewards of Kırkpınar is paid into the account of The
Youth and Sports Provincial Managers.
Those who demand for the certificate of authority have to give the
documents below.
1) The permission paper of The Youth and Sports Provincial Managers (3
copies)
2) The written contract (3 copies)
3) The reward table (3 copies)
4) The bank receipt (3 copies)
The Types of Organizations:
Article 6: The types of the greased wrestling contests are given below:
a) The local organizations are held within the year.
b) The first class organizations are held every 3 years. The organizations
which will get the traditional or first class organizations status without
filling their time can be done with the decision of The Federation Central
Referee Committee. The existence of the technical opportunities is
considered.
c) The traditional organizations are held at least every 5 year.
Third Section
The Duties and Authorizations of the Board of Directors of Turkish
Wrestling Federation
Article 7: There listed below the duties and authorizations of the board
of directors of Turkish Wrestling Federation related to the greases
wrestling:
 a) In the necessary cases, drawing proposals of The Greased wrestling
regulations,
b) Investigating the applications for the greased wrestling organizations,
if they are found all right, giving the certificates of authority,
determining the criteria in the necessary cases.
c) By sending the representative to the greased wrestling organizations,
monitoring the arbitraments, helping the organization committee and giving
the final report,
d) The monitoring the procedures for the referee and the wrestler which
are received by The board of Penalty,
e) Evaluating the proposal of The Referee Committee and concluding,
f) Controlling the appropriateness of the announcers’ announce and
attributes to the public morality and the fair play,
The Board of Directors of Federation may attorn partially or wholly the
duties and authorizations related with The Regulations to The Action
Committee approved by The General Manager.
The Duties and Authorizations of the Observer Referee
Article 8: The Observer Referee is charged by The Federation and there
listed below the duties and authorizations of the observer referee:
a) Reporting about The Field and Tower referees,
b) Inspecting the attires of the referees according to the regulations,
c) Make the reports which are written in the contests to be sent to The
Federation
The Duties and Authorizations of the Representative
a) Keeping the organization as they should be,
b) Keeping the contest appropriate for The Regulations and helping the
organization,
c) Presenting the lacks and difficulties to occur in the contest to The
Federation by reporting,
d) Holding meeting with the referees charged in the organizations
committee and the contest and other charged people, taking the precautions
to keep the contest to be performed successfully,
e) And the representative of The Federation will give the agha increase
money to Turkish Wrestling Federation.
The Selection of Agha at the Greased Wrestling
Organizations and His Duties
Article 9: The selection of agha and the
bidding charges are stated below:
a) The selection of agha custom might
be carried on as undertaking the financial supporter and the spiritual
bearer in the organizations. The selection of the agha is carried out by
the corporate that will hold the organization via public auction a year
after the finals of the head wrestling. Agha is the natural member of the
organization.
b) 5 per cent of the public auction
for the local and first class traditional wrestling and 10 per cent of the
public auction for Kırkpınar wrestling will be put into the account of The
General Management by agha at least 2 months later. In cases these
conditions are not set, the attribution as agha will be cancelled.
c) The permission for the
organizations which have not given any the agha saving money to hold
organizations again will be given provided that the agha saving money are
paid into the account before the wrestling organization at the same year.
d) The certificate of authority will
not be given to the owner of the organization which did not pay the agha
saving money.
e) The representative of The
Federation gets the agha saving money and brings to the Turkish Wrestling
Federation.
The Duties and the Dress of the Announcer
Article 10: The announcer is the person who
presents the wrestlers according to their sizes by reciting traditional
poems. At any rate, the announcer cannot recite any poems which are
humiliating and dishonorable. In the field of contest, there is no chance
to be given for advertising of the political parties. The politicians who
come to watch the wrestling are announced without their law names.
After the matching in the field of the greased wrestling the announcer
makes the announcements to the wrestlers and the spectators relying on the
directions of the tower referee. He cannot sell any picture and collect
any money. Those who do not obey the rules are sent to The Board of
Penalty and are not assigned until their penalties are over. They dress
the folklore clothes which The Federation determines. They announce along
the directions of the action committee. The announcer has to get The
Federation ID card. Those without ID card are not assigned.
The Clothes of the Drummer and the Horn Player
Article 11: In the traditional, First Class
and Local wrestling, folkloric clothes of the region are primal. It is
important that these clothes should be different from the ones of the
announcer.
The Organization Committee
Article 12: The organization Committee is
formed by at least 5 judicial people who have given a written notice to
the local civil chief and have the certificate of authority from The
Federation. The chairman of this committee is chosen among this committee.
This committee is obliged to be formed except the wedding feasts.
In these organizations, the invitation protocol bases are being executed
under the control of the local civil chief.
The Rules and Duties
Article 13: In the greased wrestling
activity, there are Action, Science and Training, Technical, Health and
Organizations committees. Each committee consists of at least 5 people to
be appointed by The Chairman of Federation and chooses a chairman among
themselves.
The duties of the committees are these;
a) The Action Committee is the most
authorized organ which is taking the decision relating to the greased
wrestling in the behalf of The Federation Board of Directors. The Action
Committee coordinates the committees stated in The Regulations, controls
them, takes the required precautions and directs then. Moreover; it
determines the sportsmen to be sent to the organizations abroad and the
directors, the other assigned people.
b) The Science and Training Committee
detects the every kind of needs related with the greased wrestling,
prepares the scientific and educational media.
c) The Technical Committee holds a
consultation with the greased wrestling, delivers conflicting opinions
about the technical issues.
d) The Health Committee helps the
sportsmen with their drawbacks and requires supports for their treatments.
It studies about the nourishment of the sportsmen, determines the
medicines that the sportsmen can use and informs the sportsmen about the
doping as studying about it.
e) The Organization Committee makes
the complete preparations of the aids which are required for the field of
wrestling and the greases wrestling and which are stated in The
Regulation, takes the precautions which help the press members assigned
for the wrestling do their job properly and help the spectators see the
contest without any handicap. It obtains the sings and the special clothes
for the press members and prevents the press members’ form going to the
moors; it helps the greased wrestling organizations, controls the local
organizations committee, considers the demands for the certificates of
authority and carries studies about the organizations to be held abroad.
f) The Federation Organization
Committee decides the dates of the national and the international
contests, and ensures the contest to be performed properly and helps the
organizations committees.
Section 4
The Field of Wrestling
The Field of Wrestling and Arrangement
Article 14: It is obliged that the field of
wrestling has to be arranged under the control of The Youth and Sports
Provincial or County Management and The Representative of The Federation
complying with the rules and the conditions.
a) The field of wrestling has grass
ground and is in 30 m X 30 m dimensions away from the spectators and is
surrounded with the rope or wire.
b) There are the health equip,
ambulance or a special vehicle for the same purpose in the field of the
wrestling.
c) For the greased wrestling the olive
oil with 1.5 degree acid is maintained.
d) There is covered changing room
secured for the wrestlers.
e) Near the field of wrestling the
bathing place is maintained. If necessary, there is to reserve spaces in
Turkish bath.
f) There are spaces for the wrestlers
waiting for the contest.
g) For the tower referees, a space
where they can see the field of wrestling fully is reserved from the
middle of one corner of the field of wrestling. Those who are not assigned
cannot seat near them. The tower has at least 2 meter high. And in the
tower those who are assigned for registration and the announcer take
place. The sound system is supplied.
The Field Commissary
Article 15: The enough number of the field commissaries is
appointed by the organization committee in the local wrestling, in the
traditional and firs class organizations, the representative tower referee
of The Federation is appointed by the chairman of the organization
committee. The field commissary cooperates with the authorized people of
the organization and the security police in order to ensure the press
members to be at right places prevent spectators from intruding into the
field, keep the organization in order and under discipline, and ensures
the reward ceremony. He is acting under the directions of the tower head
referee. He is paid the same as the referee.
Section Five
The License and the Registration Procedure
The Necessity of the License and the Participation in the Greased
Wrestling
Article 16: The wrestlers to participate in
the greased wrestling must have the licenses. For the little, the doctor
report and the parent assent are enough. The licenses are visaed very
year. The ones who are sent to The Penalty Board as advised, the one of
whose licenses are canceled cannot wrestle anywhere until their penalties
are over. It is a must that the 15 year old wrestlers have to put their
pictures on their id cards.
The Registration Procedures of the Wrestlers, the Medical Examinations and
the Selection of the Categories
Article 17: The registration procedures, the
medical examinations and the selection of the categories of the wrestlers
are committed as below.
a) The wrestlers to join in the
greased wrestling contest are registered by giving their license to the
organization committee enrolment office. The categories of the wrestlers
are selected by the assigned tower head referee. The registration,
determining the selection of the categories and the medical examinations
are completed 2 hours before the contests.
b) The ones who are confirmed that
they have skin illnesses in preventing degree and have physical problems
by the doctor cannot join in the contest.
c) The ones who are confirmed as not
qualified to wrestlers by the referee who are selecting the categories
cannot wrestle. The criteria such as failing long time in the contests,
getting so fat and bulky, having long nails are considered while the
referees are using their rights to determine.
d) The one should not be over 40 year
to wrestle in the local, first class, traditional and Kırkpınar wrestling.
The wrestlers in their 40th ages may be allowed to wrestle in the local,
first class, traditional and Kırkpınar wrestling with decision of The
Central Arbitration Committee as taking the consideration of the degrees
and performances that the wrestlers achieved last 2 years.
Section Six
The Provisions about the Categories
The Heights and the Categories for the Wrestlers
Article 18: In the greased wrestling organizations, there are two
types applications as one of then is the traditional wrestling and the
other one is the local and the first class wrestling:
a) The Heights which The Federation
announces in January every year are arranged as below:
1- Little One,
2- Little Two,
3- Encouraging,
4- Very Windy,
5- Deck Small,
6- Deck Middle,
7- Deck Big,
8- Small Middle Small,
9- Small Middle Big,
10- Middle Big,
11- Steerage,
12- Head.
b) In the local wrestling the heights
are arranged as below:
1- Little,
2- Encouraging,
3- Very Windy,
4- Deck,
5- Small Middle,
6- Big Middle,
7- Steerage,
8- Head.
In case there are so many wrestlers in the small middle and the deck
heights, these heights are divided with the decision of the arbitration
committee and the organization committee. Deck Small, Deck Big Middle
Small and Small Middle Big.
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