History

FOUNDERS of BEŞİKTAŞ J.K.
Ahmet Fetgeri (Aşeni), Mehmet Ali Fetgeri (Aşeni), Osman Paşazade Mehmet Şamil (Şhaplı), Hüseyin Bereket, Kadızade Nazım Nazif (Ander) and a group of twenty unnamed youngsters are the principal founders of Beşiktaş Gymanstics Club. Nearly all founders have a Caucasian origin. While Ahmet and Mehmet Ali Fetgeri brothers came from a royal Georgian family, Mehmet Şamil and Hüseyin Bereket descended from the Legendary Imam Shamil of Dagestan.