ligenceoffieldworkandothersocialvices,accordingtotheauthors,wereadaily
occurrenceintheTurkishcountryside.Thatiswhythemalesinthevillagehadto
beeducatedthroughsport.²⁶⁰Inthecities,venerealdiseaseswereanotherthreat
tothehealthofyoungpeople.Here,SaylaviandApakreferredtothescarethat
hadalsooccuredinGermanybefore 191 4.²⁶¹Inaddition,theauthorsfearedthe
spreadofcommunistideas,especiallyamongcivilengineers.
Foreignrolemodelswerethefocusonthesecondpartofthereport.Interms
ofapossiblenamefortheorganization,theauthorskeptwiththetraditionof
Carl Diemand suggested “AtatürkYouth”.²⁶² However,Turkish youthcould
onlybeeligibleforadmissionintoorganizationsattheageof16,sincethe
entryintotheHitlerYouthatageof14wastooearlyintermsofmaturityand
thecostintensivestructureinthelessurbanizedAnatolia.²⁶³Thiswasafeasible
pointthathadalsobeenneglectedbyHeinrichvonHoff,whenheimplemented
theGermanrolemodelin 1916 .TheBundJungdeutschlandmodelwasnotposi-
tivelyreviewedintheperiodicaloftheTurkishsportassociationinthelate
19 30s.OneauthorblamedthesetbackoftheWorldWarforfailureoftheorgan-
ization:
“Aftersome(preliminary)studies,vonHoffcameupwithaprojectcalled‘GençDernekleri
Teşkilatı’[...].Coincidingwiththewar’smostsevereandforoursidedifficultperiod,this
organizationwaslefthalf-finishedanddidnotprevailbutdisappearedtogetherwiththe
armistice.”²⁶⁴ThiscanbereadasaproofofthefactthattheexistenceoftheOGDwasnotfor-
gotten.Furthermore,thefollowingyear,thesameperiodicalalsofeaturedamore
negativeassessmentandcharacterizedtheOGDas“abadcopyoftheorganiza-
tionthathadbeenheadedbyvonderGoltzPasha(YoungGermany).”²⁶⁵
SaylaviandApak,GençlikTeşkilatıHakkındaRapor,19.Cf.inthisregardtheillustrationof
HitleryouthgirlsinTürkSüporKurumuDergisi 19 October 1936 ,6.Thecaptionreadsasfollows:
“TheGermanvillagegirlsthatweseeduringsportundertheguidanceofafemalecoachhave
learnedthattrainingtheirbodiesisaduty.”
Cf.Williams,“Ecstasiesoftheyoung”.
SaylaviandApak,GençlikTeşkilatıHakkındaRapor,24.
SaylaviandApak,GençlikTeşkilatıHakkındaRapor,25.
NizameddinKırşan,“İzcilik”[BoyScouting],TürkSporKurumuDergisi 71 (19 37 ), 6 – 7.
VildanAşir.“TürkİzcilikTarihineKısaBirBakış”[ABriefHistoryoftheTurkishBoy
Scouts],TürkSporKurumuDergisi 97 (1938),2.
156 3German-Ottoman/TurkishCooperationintheMobilizationofYouth