Background
He was born in Istanbul, Turkey in the mid-to-late 1910s, with his birth year being reported as 1915, 1917, and 1919.
He was born in Istanbul, Turkey in the mid-to-late 1910s, with his birth year being reported as 1915, 1917, and 1919.
He attended the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, finishing joint eighth in the individual road race with his country failing to medal in the team version. He also participated in the 1948 Summer Olympics, but did not finish the individual race. After retiring from active competition in 1949 he became president of the Turkish Cycling Federation in 1950 and held that position through 1968, the same year that he helped found what would become the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey.
With the death of Halet Çambel on 14 January 2014 he became the oldest surviving Turkish Olympian.