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Mehmet Ata Öztürk
Adapted physical education and disability-sport researcher.
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Mehmet Ata Öztürk is a researcher in adapted physical education and disability sport whose institutional record is maintained by Middle East Technical University. Mehmet Ata Öztürk graduated from METU physical education in 1997, completed a Florida State master’s in 2001 and earned an Indiana University Bloomington kinesiology doctorate in 2007.
His doctorate examined goals and factors predicting sport participation among people with physical disabilities; the record also lists a special-education doctoral minor. Mehmet Ata Öztürk worked at Marmara’s physical education school in 2008–2014 before a METU assistant-professor appointment from 2014.
Mehmet Ata Öztürk led METU’s accessible-student unit in 2016–2018. The profile documents disability-awareness and inclusive university-teaching professional development. His research connects physical education, inclusion and disability-sport participation.
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Middle East Technical University institutional research record
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