Togay BAYATLIPresidentNational Olympic Committee of Turkey
Togay Bayatlı was born in Bor on 20th September 1938. He went to Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, and played football for Istanbulspor. His career as a sports writer began in 1962. During his student days he was chairman of AIESEC (the International Association of Students of Economics), and was elected to its International Consultative Committee.
He served on the organizing committees for the UEFA Junior Football Tournament in 1957, the UEFA Congress in Istanbul in 1978, the International Association of Sports Writers (AIPS) Congress in Istanbul in 1985 and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) General Assembly in Istanbul in 1987. In 1991 he organized the EOC General Assembly and four Executive Committee and Office Meetings for AIPS. He has attended all AIPS Congresses and Assemblies since 1977. In 1981 he was elected to membership of the AIPS Executive Committee in San Paulo and in 1985 he became Vice President of the AIPS. He has been a member of the Executive Committee at the Fenerbahçe Sports Club and has presided over all the club’s amateur sports activities. It was he who organized Fenerbahçe’s first match with an All-Europe team. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Turkish Sports Writers’ Association (TSYD) since 1976 and was Chairman from 1986 to 1992.
Bayatlı became President of the AIPS in 1993. On 15th May 1997 he was elected to serve as President for a further four years at the 60th General Assembly of the AIPS in Oviedo, Spain, beating Gianni Merlo of Italy into second place by 58 votes to 21. At the AIPS General Assembly in Toronto in 2001 he was re-elected to the Presidency unopposed.
Bayatlı attended the 1983 and 1987 Mediterranean Games as AIPS Delegate, and served as Olympic Committee General Secretary at the Mediterranean Games in 1991 (Athens), 1993 (Languedoc) and 1997 (Bari). He covered the 1972, 1980 and 1984 Olympics as a journalist, and attended the Summer and Winter Olympics many times as General Secretary of the National Olympic Committee (1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics; 1992 Albertville, 1994 Lillehammer and 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics). He was elected as the President of NOC of Turkey in 2003 and was re-elected in 2005 for four years term.
In addition to his membership of the EOC Executive Committee, he is also a member of the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and FIFA Press Commissions, Chairman of the Mediterranean Games Media Commission and the holder of an IOC medal for Olympic Merit. Bayatlı speaks English, German, Italian and Spanish. |
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