Rupen Semerciyan

Rupen Semerciyan (* 1906 ) was a Turkish basketball player and coach of Armenian descent. He was the first coach of the Turkish national basketball team and held this post from 1935 to 1938.

Rupen Semerciyan began his basketball career at Robert College in Istanbul . In the 1930s, Semerciyan was commissioned by the National Sports Organization of Turkey ( Türkiye Milli Spor Teşkilatı ) to establish the Turkish national basketball team because of his success in the studies of the introduction and promotion of basketball in Turkey . Between 1935 and 1938 he was also the first coach of the Turkish national basketball team. At the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 , he headed the Turkish national basketball team. In Turkey he also played a fundamental role in basketball refereeing. Basketball tournaments named after him have been held every year since 1989.

He became a citizen of the Soviet Union based in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic .

Web links

İstanbul Ermenilerinde Kültür, Spor

Individual evidence

^ Pars Tuğlacı : Çağdaş Türkiye . tape 3 . Cem Yayınevi, 1987, p. 1962 (Turkish, online ).
↑ Rupen Semerciyan Turnuvası'nda final Doğru. Turkish Basketball Federation . Retrieved January 13, 2013 (Turkish).
↑ Cafer Ulu: Türkiye cumhuriyeti'nde Ermeniler . Ed .: Ataturk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Ataturk Araştırma Merkezi. 2009, ISBN 978-975-16-2143-6 , pp. 170 (Turkish, online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Semerciyan, Rupees
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish basketball player and basketball coach of Armenian descent
DATE OF BIRTH	1906
DATE OF DEATH	20th century or 21st century

[1] Pars Tuğlacı : Çağdaş Türkiye . tape 3 . Cem Yayınevi, 1987, p. 1962 (Turkish, online ).

[2] Rupen Semerciyan Turnuvası'nda final Doğru. Turkish Basketball Federation . Retrieved January 13, 2013 (Turkish).

[3] Cafer Ulu: Türkiye cumhuriyeti'nde Ermeniler . Ed .: Ataturk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Ataturk Araştırma Merkezi. 2009, ISBN 978-975-16-2143-6 , pp. 170 (Turkish, online ).