Turkey aims to get more than 10 medals in the 2016 Olympics and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after a disappointing showing four years ago. At the 2012 London Paralympic Games, Turkey won 10 medals, including one gold, five silver, and four bronze medals.
The country is competing in the 2016 games with total of 79 athletes, including 49 physically handicapped athletes, 29 visually handicapped athletes, and one with mental disabilities, called a special athlete. Arif Umit Uztürk, head of the Turkish Sports Federation for the Physically Disabled, said that they would compete with 49 athletes in eight divisions.
Abdullah Çetin, head of sports for the visually impaired, said that they had won three medals in London, and hope to at least double that this year. Birol Aydın, head of the Turkish Special Athletes Sports Federation, said Turkey's Mihriban Kaya has become one of the world's top young athletes.
