Raşit Öztaş

Raşit Öztaş (born 1920, date of death unknown)[1] was a Turkish athlete who competed in the men's 100 metres in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Mahmut and his wife Atiye (daughter of Hüseyin Hüsnü Pasha) had emigrated to Turkey from Libya shortly after they married.

After representing Turkey in the London Olympics in 1948, he returned to Ankara to do his reserve officer military duty.

After he completed his national duty as a reserve officer, Raşit Öztaş was appointed to a sugar factory as a manager.

When he was in his fourth year of university, Raşit Öztaş married Azize Oztas who was a student at Eskisehir-Mahmudiye-Cifteler Village Institute teachers training school.