Wrestling in Turkey


is considered as an "ancestral sport" in Turkey, represented foremost by the annual Kırkpınar tournament in oil wrestling.
Along with various highly esteemed styles of folk wrestling, olympic wrestling is widely practiced, while Greco-Roman wrestling is less popular due to freestyle wrestling's technical affinity with folk wrestling.
Turkey currently has only one professional wrestling promotion, Turkish Power Wrestling founded in 2010.

Turkish folk Wrestling Styles

were held in Turkey in
1957, 1974, 1994, 1999 and 2011.
The Turkish team won the Men's freestyle championship in 1951, 1954, 1957, 1966 and 1994; and the Men's Greco-Roman championship in 2006 and 2009.