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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Eu não sou turco&#8221;. Essa frase me acompanhou por quase toda minha vida no Brasil. Árabes no país de Pelé e Royce são chamados popularmente de turcos. E a explicação para isso é simples. Quando os primeiros árabes chegaram ao Brasil, no começo do século 20, vinham com passaporte turco, pois a Turquia dominava quase&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Eu não sou turco&#8221;.</p>
<p>Essa frase me acompanhou por quase toda minha vida no Brasil. Árabes no país de Pelé e Royce são chamados popularmente de turcos. E a explicação para isso é simples.</p>
<p>Quando os primeiros árabes chegaram ao Brasil, no começo do século 20, vinham com passaporte turco, pois a Turquia dominava quase toda a Árabia. Mas poucos sabem que turcos e árabes foram rivais durante anos.</p>
<p>Dessa maneira, dentro da comunidade árabe no Brasil, ser chamado de turco tinha uma conotação nada carinhosa. Na busca da minha identidade árabe busquei, muito através do Jiu-Jitsu, conhecer o maior número possível de países árabes. E passar um pouco do meu conhecimento de kimono aos amigos do mundo árabe.</p>
<p>Há pouco mais de 30 dias, antes do meu retorno definitivo ao Brasil após três anos no Oriente Médio, resolvi conhecer Istambul, na Turquia. Entrei em contato com uma das referências da arte suave no país, o faixa-roxa Ertan Balaban, formado pelo campeão Igor Silva (Brasa).</p>
<p>Ertan é um grande anfitrião, o tipo de pessoa que abre a porta de casa a qualquer desconhecido em troca de algumas posições da arte suave. Neste quesito, a hospitalidade, turcos e árabes são bem parecidos. Além do Jiu-Jitsu clássico e do alto grau de disciplina exigido em suas aulas, pude perceber em Ertan uma qualidade especial que está sendo vital na divulgação do Jiu-Jitsu no país: a determinação.</p>
<p>Ao sentarmos para almoçar num restaurante com seu pai, professor universitário de respeito, e seu primo turco-americano, ambos notáveis intelectuais, fiquei ciente de como Ertan conseguiu notabilidade na Turquia através do Jiu-Jitsu, arte que conheceu e começou a treinar há sete anos, quando estudava nos EUA.</p>
<div id="attachment_52838" style="width: 619px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-52838" class="size-full wp-image-52838" title="IgorSilvaTurquia" src="https://www.graciemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/IgorSilvaTurquia1.jpg" alt="" width="609" height="640" /><p id="caption-attachment-52838" class="wp-caption-text">Ertan e Igor Silva. Foto: Arquivo Pessoal.</p></div>
<p>Mais do que uma arte, para Ertan o Jiu-Jitsu é um movimento mundial.</p>
<p>&#8220;Vejam, eu conheci o Mohamed aqui pela internet, como conheci tantos outros faixas-pretas brasileiros que já vieram aqui. E ele já é um irmão, irmão de Jiu-Jitsu. Me digam se existe algum outro movimento no mundo, confraria ou esporte, capaz de unir tanto as pessoas assim? É a isso que me refiro – o Jiu-Jjtsu é uma irmandade de fato&#8221;, diz Ertan Balaban.</p>
<p>Em poucas palavras, este faixa-roxa turco conseguiu definir o Jiu-Jitsu mundial hoje.</p>
<p>Ultrapassamos fronteiras, sejam elas políticas, religiosas ou culturais. Nos tornamos uma grande rede de convergência, de formadores de opinião, de estilo de vida.</p>
<p>O Jiu-Jitsu praticado na Turquia é igual ao praticado no Brasil, que é o mesmo dos EUA, da Europa, da Arábia, Ásia ou Oceania.</p>
<p>Talvez não pelo fator técnica simplesmente, e sim mais pelo fator da tradição do conhecimento, do estilo de vida, da união de seus praticantes.</p>
<p>Ao voltar de vez ao Brasil, pátria amada, agora me sinto mais brasileiro. E mais árabe e por que não dizer, mais turco.</p>
<p>Um excelente 2012 a todos vocês, leitores do GRACIEMAG.com e meus irmãos de Jiu-Jitsu.</p>The post <a href="https://www.graciemag.com/jiu-jitsu-traco-de-uniao-e-irmandade-global/">Jiu-Jitsu, traço de união e irmandade global</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.graciemag.com">Graciemag</a>.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“I&#8217;m not Turkish.” That sentence has accompanied me nearly my entire life in Brazil. Arabs in the land of Pelé and Royce are commonly referred to as Turks. And there&#8217;s a simple explanation for it. The first Arabs to arrive in Brazil, early in the 20th century, entered the country using Turkish passports, since Turkey&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“I&#8217;m not Turkish.”</p>
<p>That sentence has accompanied me nearly my entire life in Brazil. Arabs in the land of Pelé and Royce are commonly referred to as Turks. And there&#8217;s a simple explanation for it.</p>
<p>The first Arabs to arrive in Brazil, early in the 20th century, entered the country using Turkish passports, since Turkey controlled nearly the entire Arabian peninsula. But not a lot of people knew that Turks and Arabs had been rivals for ages.</p>
<p>Hence, within the Arab community in Brazil, there was nothing endearing about being called a Turk. In pursuing my Arab identity, often by way of Jiu-Jitsu, I sought to get to know as many Arab countries as possible. And to convey a bit of my gentle art knowledge to my friends in the Arab world.</p>
<p>A little over 30 days ago, before definitively returning to Brazil after three years in the Middle East, I resolved to check out Istanbul, in Turkey. I got in touch with one of the country&#8217;s gentle art figureheads, purple belt Ertan Balaban, a student of team Brasa&#8217;s Igor Silva.</p>
<p>Ertan is a great host, the kind of guy who will open the doors to his home to any stranger in exchange for a few gentle art positions. In this respect—hospitality—Turks and Arabs are quite similar. Besides his classic style of Jiu-Jitsu and the high degree of discipline he demands in class, I noticed in Ertan a special quality that has been vital to Jiu-Jitsu spreading in the country: determination.</p>
<p>Upon sitting down for lunch at a restaurant with his father, a respected university professor, and his Turkish-American cousin—both notable intellectuals—, it came to me that Ertan had attained his notability in Turkey through Jiu-Jitsu, an art he got to know and began practicing seven years ago, when studying in the USA.</p>
<div id="attachment_52838-2" style="width: 619px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-52838-2" class="size-full wp-image-52838" title="IgorSilvaTurquia" src="https://www.graciemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/IgorSilvaTurquia1.jpg" alt="" width="609" height="640" /><p id="caption-attachment-52838-2" class="wp-caption-text">Ertan and Igor Silva / Personal archive photo</p></div>
<p>Beyond being just a martial art, to Ertan Jiu-Jitsu is a worldwide movement.</p>
<p>“You see, I met Mohamed here over the internet, just as I met so many other Brazilian black belts who&#8217;ve been through these parts. And he&#8217;s already like a brother to me—a Jiu-Jitsu brother. You tell me if there&#8217;s another movement in the world—whether an association group or sport—that can bring so many people together like this. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about; Jiu-Jitsu is indeed a brotherhood,” says Ertan Balaban.</p>
<p>In a few words, this Turkish purple belt managed to sum up worldwide Jiu-Jitsu today.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve surpassed borders, whether they be political, religious or cultural. We become a great network of convergence, of opinion makers, of lifestyle.</p>
<p>The Jiu-Jitsu practiced in Turkey is the same as that practiced in Brazil, which is the same as that of the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Asia or Oceania.</p>
<p>Perhaps not simply for the technical factor but more for the factor of tradition of understanding, lifestyle, its practitioners&#8217; togetherness.</p>
<p>Now back in my beloved country of Brazil for good, I now feel more Brazilian. And more Arab. And why not say it, more Turkish.</p>
<p>A wonderful 2012 to you all, GRACIEMAG.com readers and my Jiu-Jitsu brothers.</p>The post <a href="https://www.graciemag.com/jiu-jitsu-global-togetherness-and-brotherhood/">Jiu-Jitsu, global togetherness and brotherhood</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.graciemag.com">Graciemag</a>.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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