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FOUNDATION
A group of 22 young individuals gathered on certain days of the week and did bodily exercises in the Serencebey neighborhood of Besiktas in the fall of 1902 in the garden of the mansion of Osman Pasa, who was then the Medine Guard. The sports branches that these youths, who included the sons of Osman Pasha, Mehmet Samil and Hüseyin Bereket and the youths of the neighborhood, Ahmet Fetgeri, Mehmet Ali Fetgeri, Nazimnazif, Cemil Feti and Sevket, were horizontal bar, parallel bar, wrestling, weight lifting and gymnastics. When the men of Abdülhamit the Second, who had secret agents go around fearing any gathering activities because of political actions, heard about this; the exercising youths were taken to the police station after a raid. The tense situation was relaxed as some of these youths were close to palace officers and as they did not play soccer, which was in disfavor in those days, and as it was realized that they only did bodily exercises. In fact, Seyhzade Abdülhalim, who had relations with the Palace, supported these youths and started to watch the practices frequently. Famous boxer and Wrestler Kenan Bey came to the practices and started to show wrestling and boxing tricks. Bereket Gymnastic Club was founded under a special permission in 1903. The sporting activities gained some more freedom with the declaration of Constitutional Monarchy in 1908. After the political events of March 31, 1909, Fuat Balkan and Mazhar Kazanci, who were in Edirne, came to Istanbul with the Movement Army. After the political events settled down, Fuat Balkan, who was a good fencing coach and Mazhar Kazanci, who was a good wrestler and weight lifter, found the youths involved in gymnastics in Serencebey and got them to agree to doing sports together. Fuat Balkan made the space under his home in Ihlamur the Club's headquarters and the title of Bereket Gymnastics Club was changed to Besiktas Ottoman Gymnastics Club. Thus, a strong sports club; where gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, fencing and athletics were emphasized, was formed. Refik and Serafettin Beys, friends of Fuat Bey, were too good fencers. In the meantime, Besiktas Ottoman Gymnastics Club became the first registered Turkish sports club on January 13, 1910 with the encouragement of Beyoglu Governor Muhittin Bey. The interest among the youths of the neighborhood in the sports club grew and the number of members involved in sports suddenly went up to 150. The headquarters of the club was moved from Ihlamur to the building no. 49 in Akaretler. When this building was too small after a while; the building no. 84, again in Akaretler, became headquarters. The yard behind this building was turned into a sports pitch.
BESIKTAS'S COLORS
Since individual sports were done at the beginning in the Osman Pasha Mansion, there was no need for any colors for a uniform. However, as the number of sportsmen increased with new youths who joined each passing day; Mehmet Samil Bey, who had graduated from the French school gathered the Founders Committee. He removed the pin he used in his school days bearing the colors of his school from his lapel and showed it around. He said �We must have a pin just like this one made and we must force all members who attend sports in our Club to bear this pin�. Those attending the meeting eagerly agreed to Mehmet Samil Bey's proposal. At the end of the meeting, the colors of the Club to be shown on the pin were decided. The two principal colors of nature in full contrast to each other were chosen as the Club colors: Black and White�
BESIKTAS'S FIRST PIN
The date Besiktas's first pin was made was written as �1906� in Latin years inspired by the pins in the French school. On top, it said �Besiktas� in Arabic letters, the letter �J� was placed on the rights and letter �K� was placed on the left. At the back of the pin, there is a script saying it was made in �Konstantinopolis� and there is the seal of the craftsmen who made the pin on the inside. It is interesting that the star on the crest on the pin has 6 points. This 6-pointed star was used until the 2nd Constitutional Monarchy (1908). This pin was donated by Iskender Yakak to our Honorary President Süleyman Seba.
BESIKTAS AND SOCCER
Although soccer was overshadowed by others in the first period when the Club accelerated its activities, the athletes and the gymnasts in the Club felt more interest in soccer and started to have games between themselves, starting from late 1910s. In those years, the interest of the youth was about to shift to soccer and two powerful soccer teams like Valideçesme and Basiret were founded not too far away from Besiktas Club. In August 1911, Ahmet Serafettin Bey (Seref Bey), the president and founder of Valideçesme Soccer Team joined Besiktas Club with his players. As a result of the attempts by Seref Bey, who strived to bring together the soccer teams founded by youths from Besiktas under a single roof, Basiret Club joined Besiktas as well. Thus, the Soccer Branch started to operate officially as part of the Club.
THE LEGEND OF BLACK EAGLES
Besiktas, the title holder the last two seasons started the 1940-41 season with a young and renewed team. Besiktas, which opened up its lead as weeks went by, was the leader in the league. Five weeks remaining to the end, the opponent was Süleymaniye. Besiktas had started the game in Seref Stadium refereed by Semih Turansoy on Sunday January 19, 1941 with the following players: Faruk, Yavuz, Ibrahim, Rifat, Halil, Hüseyin, Sakir, Hakki, Sükrü, Seref, Esref. As in all games of that season, our team played magnificently. Half way through the second half of the game, Besiktas attacked endlessly although it is way in front. Just then, a voice was heard from Seref Stadi stands towards which Besiktas was attacking where there was an Atatürk panel. �Come on Black Eagles. Attack Black Eagles. Thousands of fans and journalists following the game that filled Seref Stadium were frozen by the echoing sound. What was done was an extremely correct observation. It was not possible to describe the Besiktas players who crushed over their opponents that season as nothing other than �Black Eagles� and the soccer they played as nothing other than �Attacking like Black Eagles�. The owner of the voice coming from the stands was a fisherman called Mehmet Galin.
Besiktas closed the game with a 6-0 lead with 3 magnificent goals volleyed in by Seref Görkey, who was known as volleyer Seref and one goal each by Captain Hakki, Sakir and Sükrü.
After this game, Besiktas's symbol has become �Black Eagles�.
SUCCESS
- Most winner of the Istanbul League Championship Title (15)
- Only club to win the Istanbul League Championship Title 5 times in a row (1939-1943)
- The most scorer team at the Istanbul League (90 Goals in a season, 599 Goals in 8 seasons)
- 18 wins at 18 matches in the official league season
- Most winner of the title: �Unbeaten Champion' (7)
- The only team that has the title: �Unbeaten Champion'
- The only team that played match in the name of Turkish National Team
- The only team that has a Turkish Flag in its Emblem
- Most winner of the �Fair-Play' Cup (19)
- Most winner of the Istanbul and Turkish Championship title in the Youth Team Football League (30)
- Balkans Championship Title at Fencing
- The club that had proposed the Government to legitimize �19 May Youth and Sports Festival�
- The club to extend wrestling to other clubs and all around Turkey
- The club that has championship titles in Athletics, Fencing, Boxing, Basketball, Wrestling and Football.
- The club that brought pole vault activity to Turkey (Ressam Namik Ismail)
- The club that had given �gym' lectures at schools
- Owner of Turkey's most wealthy facilities
- The only club that opens �sports schools� in every branch
- The only club that raises football players from its youth academy
- Winning the maximum number of cups; more than Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe
- The club that has the record of unbeaten in a 56 match row
- The only team that has only one lost in 2 seasons
- The only team that goals 10 times in a official match, 1989-90 Besiktas-Adana Demirspor: 10-0 Ali Gültiken (4), Metin Tekin (3) ve Feyyaz Uçar (3)
- The only club has the record of unbeaten in a official season (48 matches)
- The team that has the record of maximum wins in a row (1959-60 season 13 matches)
- First club to get ISO 9001: 2000. BJK is the only sports club to have ISO 9001: 2000 through sports departments and facilities management, marketing and selling the branded products, press, public and fan communications services
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