List of Turkish sportspeople

This is a list of notable Turkish sportspeople. == A == Elvan Abeylegesse – Female middle and long distance track runner Mustafa Abi – former Basketball player Tutku Açık – Basketball player Olcan Adın – Footballer Nasuh Akar – Wrestler Taha Akgül - Wrestler Gülşah Akkaya – Female basketball player Derya Aktop – Female boxer Cenk Akyol – Basketball player Işıl Alben – female Basketball player Furkan Aldemir – Basketball player Halil Altıntop – Footballer Hamit Altıntop – Footballer Eşref Apak – Hammer thrower Lütfi Arıboğan – former Basketball player Cihat Arman – Footballer Ender Arslan – Basketball player Can Artam - Race car driver Sedat Artuç – Weightlifter Ömer Aşık – Basketball player (Houston Rockets) Can Akın – Basketball player Cenk Akyol – Basketball player Serdar Apaydın – former Basketball player, Coach Ergin Ataman – Coach Necati Ateş – Footballer Celal Atik – Wrestler Engin Atsür – Basketball player İsmet Atlı – Wrestler Abdullah Avcı – former Footballer, Coach Nazmi Avluca – Wrestler Samet Aybaba – former Footballer, Coach Efe Aydan – former Basketball player Naz Aydemir – Volleyball player Fırat Aydınus – Referee Soner Aydoğdu – Footballer Süreyya Ayhan – Track Athlete Yalçın Ayhan – Footballer Serkan Aykut – Footballer Mert Aytuğ - Motorcycle racer Kazım Ayvaz – Wrestler Serdar Aziz – Footballer == B == Mesut Bakkal – Coach Doğuş Balbay – Basketball player Serkan Balcı – Footballer Pini Balili – Footballer (striker) Hakan Balta – Footballer Can Bartu – Footballer Birkan Batuk – Basketball player Rasim Başak – former Basketball player Yıldıray Baştürk – Footballer Mithat Bayrak – Wrestler Engin Baytar – Footballer Malik Beyleroğlu – Boxer Erdal Bibo – former Basketball player Burak Değer Biçer - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner Ahmet Bilek – Wrestler Gazanfer Bilge – Wrestler Aytaç Biter - Race car driver Emre Belözoğlu – Footballer Sinan Bolat – Footballer Bülent Korkmaz - Footballer Umut Bulut – Footballer Okan Buruk – former Footballer Evren Büker – Basketball player Çağla Büyükakçay - Female tennis player == C == Emre Can – Footballer Özhan Canaydın – former basketball player Cavit Cav (1905-1982) – Olympian road cyclist == Ç == Bahar Çağlar – female Basketball player Cüneyt Çakır – Referee Rıza Çalımbay – former Footballer, Coach Hakan Çalhanoğlu - Footballer Nurcan Çarkçı – female Boxer Fuat Çapa – Coach Serhat Çetin – Basketball player Servet Çetin – Footballer Burcu Çetinkaya - Female rally driver Ahmet Çakar – former Referee Emre Çolak – Footballer Tanju Çolak – Footballer == D == Mustafa Dağıstanlı – Wrestler Nedim Dal – former Basketball player Yasemin Begüm Dalgalar – female Basketball player Yasemin Dalkılıç – Free diver Ümit Davala – Footballer Gülşen Degener – Female billiards player Aykut Demir – Footballer Neslihan Demir – Volleyball player Mithat Demirel – Basketballer Volkan Demirel – Footballer Mustafa Denizli – Footballer and coach Hakan Dinç - Racing driver Kemal Dinçer – former Basketball player, Team manager Sinem Doğu – Female ice hockey player Yaşar Doğu – Wrestler Erwin Dudley – Basketball player == E == Şafak Edge – basketball player Mehmet Ekici – footballer Omer Elmas (born 1968 or 1969), wrestler Zaza Enden – basketball player Orhun Ene – basketball player, coach Korel Engin – basketball player Ahmet Enünlü – bodybuilder Arif Erdem – footballer Eda Erdem – volleyball player Semih Erden – basketball player Harun Erdenay – basketball player, Team manager Mevlüt Erdinç – footballer Isyan Erdoğan – footballer Serkan Erdoğan – basketball player Yaşar Erkan – wrestler Hasibe Erkoç – Female boxer Barış Ermiş – basketball player Tufan Ersöz – basketball player Erden Eruç – ocean rower, mountain climber, bicyclist == F == Malik Fathi – Footballer Kerim Frei – Footballer == G == Hasan Gemici – Wrestler Aytek Genç – former Socceroo and Football(soccer)Coach Gizem Girişmen - Paralympic archer Hüseyin Göçek – Referee Cenk Gönen – Footballer Kerem Gönlüm – Basketball player Gökhan Gönül – Footballer Ali Ferit Gören (1913-1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter Cevat Güler – former Footballer, Coach Muratcan Güler – Basketball player Sinan Güler – Basketball player Ersan Gülüm – Footballer Esra Gümüş – Volleyball player Gülşah Gümüşay – female Basketball player Damla Günay – Athlete (archery) İlkay Gündoğan – Footballer Şenol Güneş – former Football Player, Coach Eren Güngör – Footballer Mert Günok – Footballer Gizem Güreşen – Volleyball player == H == Orhan Hacıyeva – Basketball player Tunç Hamarat – Chess placer Hamza Hamzaoğlu – former Footballer, Coach Tayfur Havutçu – former Footballer, Coach Quanitra Hollingsworth – female Basketball player Yasemin Horasan – female Basketball player == I == Daniyar Ismayilov - Weightlifter Kemal Izzet – Footballer Muzzy Izzet – Footballer == İ == Tunç İlkin, former Pittsburgh Steelers player and Sports Commentator Ersan İlyasova – Basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks) Marsel İlhan – Tennis player Selçuk İnan – Footballer Şaziye İvegin – female Basketball player == K == Giray Kaçar – Footballer Tolunay Kafkas – former Footballer, Coach Nihat Kahveci – Footballer Enes Kanter - Basketball player (Utah Jazz) Hamit Kaplan – Wrestler Jem Karacan – Footballer Azar Karadas – Footballer Tuğba Karademir – Female figure skater Ali Karadeniz – Basketball player Hikmet Karaman – Coach İlkan Karaman – Basketball player Orçun Karaoğlanoğlu – Kayaker Özge Kavurmacıoğlu – former Basketball player Semih Kaya – Footballer Suat Kaya – Footballer Sümeyra Kaya – Female boxer Rıza Kayaalp - Wrestler Tugay Kerimoğlu - Footballer Zekiye Keskin Satır – Athlete (Archery) Tevfik Kış – Wrestler Onur Kıvrak – Footballer Erkut Kızılırmak - Race car driver Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu – female Basketball player Ahmet Kireççi – Wrestler Aykut Kocaman – former Footballer, Coach Bülent Korkmaz – former Footballer, Coach Egemen Korkmaz – Footballer Göksenin Köksal – Basketball player İsmail Köybaşı – Footballer Erman Kunter – Coach İbrahim Kutluay – former Basketball player Ermal Kuqo – Basketball player Lefter Küçükandonyadis – Footballer == M == Oktay Mahmuti – Coach Hami Mandıralı – former Footballer İlhan Mansız – Footballer Damir Mršić – former Basketball player, Team manager Halil Mutlu – Weightlifter == N == Cemal Nalga – Basketball player Petar Naumoski – former Basketball player Kristen Newlin – female Basketball player == O == İsmail Ogan – Wrestler Mehmet Oktav – Wrestler Metin Oktay – Footballer Mehmet Okur – former NBA player and 2007 NBA All-Star Ibrahim Okyay - Race car driver Ömer Onan – Basketball player Leon Osman – Footballer Levent Osman – Football (soccer) player Tamer Oyguç – former Basketball player == Ö == Aydın Örs – Coach Alpay Özalan – Footballer Tolgay Özbey – Footballer Mehmet Özdilek – former Footballer, Coach Cevher Özer – Basketball player Mesut Özil – Footballer Halis Özkahya – Referee Neriman Özsoy – Volleyball player Hüseyin Özkan – Judoka Oğuzhan Özyakup – Footballer == P == Zaza Pachulia – Basketball player Tuğba Palazoğlu – female Basketball player Asım Pars – former Basketball player Kaya Peker – Basketball player Mustafa Pektemek – Footballer Ergün Penbe – former Footballer Alper Potuk – Footballer Emir Preldžić – Basketball player == R == Rüştü Reçber – Footballer Colin Kazim-Richards, footballer Omer Riza, footballer == S == Ertuğrul Sağlam – former Footballer, Coach Nurullah Sağlam – Coach Taner Sağır – Weightlifter Sinan Şamil Sam – Boxer Sercan Sararer – Footballer Veysel Sarı – Footballer Ufuk Sarıca – former Basketball player, Coach Oğuz Savaş – Basketball player Semih Saygıner – Billiards player Yasemin Saylar– female Basketball player Mehmet Scholl – footballer Müzahir Sille – Wrestler Kenan Sipahi – Basketball player Sedat Sir – Australian Rules Football player Bahattin Sofuoğlu – Motorcycle racer Kenan Sofuoğlu – Motorcycle racer Sinan Sofuoğlu – Motorcycle racer Fatih Solak – former Basketball player Ümit Sonkol – Basketball player Gözde Sonsırma – Volleyball player İpek Soylu - Female tennis player Ercüment Sunter – Coach Naim Süleymanoğlu – Weightlifter == Ş == Olcay Şahan – Footballer Hülya Şahin (Julia Şahin) – Female Boxer, Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) jr flyweight champion Nuri Şahin – Footballer Tuncay – Footballer Hasan Şaş – former Footballer, Coach Volkan Şen – Footballer Hülya Şenyurt – Female judoka Mert Shumpert – Basketball player Bayram Şit – Wrestler Hakan Şükür – former Footballer == T == Jason Tahincioğlu – Auto racing driver Mümtaz Tahincioğlu - Auto racing driver Ufuk Talay - Football (soccer) player Cüneyt Tanman - Footballer Bahri Tanrıkulu – Taekwondo athlete Serdar Tasci – Footballer Ertuğrul Taşkıran – Footballer Nur Tatar - Taekwondo athlete Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu, football (soccer) player Nurcan Taylan – Weightlifter Servet Tazegül - Taekwondo athlete Fatih Tekke – Footballer Fatih Terim – Footballer and coach Merve Terzioğlu – Female swimmer Hamide Bıkçın Tosun – Female taekwondo athlete Bahar Toksoy – Volleyball player Mehmet Topal – Footballer Ömer Toprak – Footballer Levent Topsakal – former Basketball player, Team manager İbrahim Toraman – Footballer Gökhan Töre – Footballer Caner Topaloğlu – Basketball player Tunay Torun – Footballer Gülnur Tumbat (born 1975) - Mountaineer and ultramarathon runner Talat Tunçalp (born c.

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List of Turkish sportspeople

This is a list of notable Turkish sportspeople. == A == Elvan Abeylegesse – Female middle and long distance track runner Mustafa Abi – former Basketball player Tutku Açık – Basketball player Olcan Adın – Footballer Nasuh Akar – Wrestler Taha Akgül - Wrestler Gülşah Akkaya – Female basketball player Derya Aktop – Female boxer Cenk Akyol – Basketball player Işıl Alben – female Basketball player Furkan Aldemir – Basketball player Halil Altıntop – Footballer Hamit Altıntop – Footballer Eşref Apak – Hammer thrower Lütfi Arıboğan – former Basketball player Cihat Arman – Footballer Ender Arslan – Basketball player Can Artam - Race car driver Sedat Artuç – Weightlifter Ömer Aşık – Basketball player (Houston Rockets) Can Akın – Basketball player Cenk Akyol – Basketball player Serdar Apaydın – former Basketball player, Coach Ergin Ataman – Coach Necati Ateş – Footballer Celal Atik – Wrestler Engin Atsür – Basketball player İsmet Atlı – Wrestler Abdullah Avcı – former Footballer, Coach Nazmi Avluca – Wrestler Samet Aybaba – former Footballer, Coach Efe Aydan – former Basketball player Naz Aydemir – Volleyball player Fırat Aydınus – Referee Soner Aydoğdu – Footballer Süreyya Ayhan – Track Athlete Yalçın Ayhan – Footballer Serkan Aykut – Footballer Mert Aytuğ - Motorcycle racer Kazım Ayvaz – Wrestler Serdar Aziz – Footballer == B == Mesut Bakkal – Coach Doğuş Balbay – Basketball player Serkan Balcı – Footballer Pini Balili – Footballer (striker) Hakan Balta – Footballer Can Bartu – Footballer Birkan Batuk – Basketball player Rasim Başak – former Basketball player Yıldıray Baştürk – Footballer Mithat Bayrak – Wrestler Engin Baytar – Footballer Malik Beyleroğlu – Boxer Erdal Bibo – former Basketball player Burak Değer Biçer - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner Ahmet Bilek – Wrestler Gazanfer Bilge – Wrestler Aytaç Biter - Race car driver Emre Belözoğlu – Footballer Sinan Bolat – Footballer Bülent Korkmaz - Footballer Umut Bulut – Footballer Okan Buruk – former Footballer Evren Büker – Basketball player Çağla Büyükakçay - Female tennis player == C == Emre Can – Footballer Özhan Canaydın – former basketball player Cavit Cav (1905-1982) – Olympian road cyclist == Ç == Bahar Çağlar – female Basketball player Cüneyt Çakır – Referee Rıza Çalımbay – former Footballer, Coach Hakan Çalhanoğlu - Footballer Nurcan Çarkçı – female Boxer Fuat Çapa – Coach Serhat Çetin – Basketball player Servet Çetin – Footballer Burcu Çetinkaya - Female rally driver Ahmet Çakar – former Referee Emre Çolak – Footballer Tanju Çolak – Footballer == D == Mustafa Dağıstanlı – Wrestler Nedim Dal – former Basketball player Yasemin Begüm Dalgalar – female Basketball player Yasemin Dalkılıç – Free diver Ümit Davala – Footballer Gülşen Degener – Female billiards player Aykut Demir – Footballer Neslihan Demir – Volleyball player Mithat Demirel – Basketballer Volkan Demirel – Footballer Mustafa Denizli – Footballer and coach Hakan Dinç - Racing driver Kemal Dinçer – former Basketball player, Team manager Sinem Doğu – Female ice hockey player Yaşar Doğu – Wrestler Erwin Dudley – Basketball player == E == Şafak Edge – basketball player Mehmet Ekici – footballer Omer Elmas (born 1968 or 1969), wrestler Zaza Enden – basketball player Orhun Ene – basketball player, coach Korel Engin – basketball player Ahmet Enünlü – bodybuilder Arif Erdem – footballer Eda Erdem – volleyball player Semih Erden – basketball player Harun Erdenay – basketball player, Team manager Mevlüt Erdinç – footballer Isyan Erdoğan – footballer Serkan Erdoğan – basketball player Yaşar Erkan – wrestler Hasibe Erkoç – Female boxer Barış Ermiş – basketball player Tufan Ersöz – basketball player Erden Eruç – ocean rower, mountain climber, bicyclist == F == Malik Fathi – Footballer Kerim Frei – Footballer == G == Hasan Gemici – Wrestler Aytek Genç – former Socceroo and Football(soccer)Coach Gizem Girişmen - Paralympic archer Hüseyin Göçek – Referee Cenk Gönen – Footballer Kerem Gönlüm – Basketball player Gökhan Gönül – Footballer Ali Ferit Gören (1913-1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter Cevat Güler – former Footballer, Coach Muratcan Güler – Basketball player Sinan Güler – Basketball player Ersan Gülüm – Footballer Esra Gümüş – Volleyball player Gülşah Gümüşay – female Basketball player Damla Günay – Athlete (archery) İlkay Gündoğan – Footballer Şenol Güneş – former Football Player, Coach Eren Güngör – Footballer Mert Günok – Footballer Gizem Güreşen – Volleyball player == H == Orhan Hacıyeva – Basketball player Tunç Hamarat – Chess placer Hamza Hamzaoğlu – former Footballer, Coach Tayfur Havutçu – former Footballer, Coach Quanitra Hollingsworth – female Basketball player Yasemin Horasan – female Basketball player == I == Daniyar Ismayilov - Weightlifter Kemal Izzet – Footballer Muzzy Izzet – Footballer == İ == Tunç İlkin, former Pittsburgh Steelers player and Sports Commentator Ersan İlyasova – Basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks) Marsel İlhan – Tennis player Selçuk İnan – Footballer Şaziye İvegin – female Basketball player == K == Giray Kaçar – Footballer Tolunay Kafkas – former Footballer, Coach Nihat Kahveci – Footballer Enes Kanter - Basketball player (Utah Jazz) Hamit Kaplan – Wrestler Jem Karacan – Footballer Azar Karadas – Footballer Tuğba Karademir – Female figure skater Ali Karadeniz – Basketball player Hikmet Karaman – Coach İlkan Karaman – Basketball player Orçun Karaoğlanoğlu – Kayaker Özge Kavurmacıoğlu – former Basketball player Semih Kaya – Footballer Suat Kaya – Footballer Sümeyra Kaya – Female boxer Rıza Kayaalp - Wrestler Tugay Kerimoğlu - Footballer Zekiye Keskin Satır – Athlete (Archery) Tevfik Kış – Wrestler Onur Kıvrak – Footballer Erkut Kızılırmak - Race car driver Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu – female Basketball player Ahmet Kireççi – Wrestler Aykut Kocaman – former Footballer, Coach Bülent Korkmaz – former Footballer, Coach Egemen Korkmaz – Footballer Göksenin Köksal – Basketball player İsmail Köybaşı – Footballer Erman Kunter – Coach İbrahim Kutluay – former Basketball player Ermal Kuqo – Basketball player Lefter Küçükandonyadis – Footballer == M == Oktay Mahmuti – Coach Hami Mandıralı – former Footballer İlhan Mansız – Footballer Damir Mršić – former Basketball player, Team manager Halil Mutlu – Weightlifter == N == Cemal Nalga – Basketball player Petar Naumoski – former Basketball player Kristen Newlin – female Basketball player == O == İsmail Ogan – Wrestler Mehmet Oktav – Wrestler Metin Oktay – Footballer Mehmet Okur – former NBA player and 2007 NBA All-Star Ibrahim Okyay - Race car driver Ömer Onan – Basketball player Leon Osman – Footballer Levent Osman – Football (soccer) player Tamer Oyguç – former Basketball player == Ö == Aydın Örs – Coach Alpay Özalan – Footballer Tolgay Özbey – Footballer Mehmet Özdilek – former Footballer, Coach Cevher Özer – Basketball player Mesut Özil – Footballer Halis Özkahya – Referee Neriman Özsoy – Volleyball player Hüseyin Özkan – Judoka Oğuzhan Özyakup – Footballer == P == Zaza Pachulia – Basketball player Tuğba Palazoğlu – female Basketball player Asım Pars – former Basketball player Kaya Peker – Basketball player Mustafa Pektemek – Footballer Ergün Penbe – former Footballer Alper Potuk – Footballer Emir Preldžić – Basketball player == R == Rüştü Reçber – Footballer Colin Kazim-Richards, footballer Omer Riza, footballer == S == Ertuğrul Sağlam – former Footballer, Coach Nurullah Sağlam – Coach Taner Sağır – Weightlifter Sinan Şamil Sam – Boxer Sercan Sararer – Footballer Veysel Sarı – Footballer Ufuk Sarıca – former Basketball player, Coach Oğuz Savaş – Basketball player Semih Saygıner – Billiards player Yasemin Saylar– female Basketball player Mehmet Scholl – footballer Müzahir Sille – Wrestler Kenan Sipahi – Basketball player Sedat Sir – Australian Rules Football player Bahattin Sofuoğlu – Motorcycle racer Kenan Sofuoğlu – Motorcycle racer Sinan Sofuoğlu – Motorcycle racer Fatih Solak – former Basketball player Ümit Sonkol – Basketball player Gözde Sonsırma – Volleyball player İpek Soylu - Female tennis player Ercüment Sunter – Coach Naim Süleymanoğlu – Weightlifter == Ş == Olcay Şahan – Footballer Hülya Şahin (Julia Şahin) – Female Boxer, Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) jr flyweight champion Nuri Şahin – Footballer Tuncay – Footballer Hasan Şaş – former Footballer, Coach Volkan Şen – Footballer Hülya Şenyurt – Female judoka Mert Shumpert – Basketball player Bayram Şit – Wrestler Hakan Şükür – former Footballer == T == Jason Tahincioğlu – Auto racing driver Mümtaz Tahincioğlu - Auto racing driver Ufuk Talay - Football (soccer) player Cüneyt Tanman - Footballer Bahri Tanrıkulu – Taekwondo athlete Serdar Tasci – Footballer Ertuğrul Taşkıran – Footballer Nur Tatar - Taekwondo athlete Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu, football (soccer) player Nurcan Taylan – Weightlifter Servet Tazegül - Taekwondo athlete Fatih Tekke – Footballer Fatih Terim – Footballer and coach Merve Terzioğlu – Female swimmer Hamide Bıkçın Tosun – Female taekwondo athlete Bahar Toksoy – Volleyball player Mehmet Topal – Footballer Ömer Toprak – Footballer Levent Topsakal – former Basketball player, Team manager İbrahim Toraman – Footballer Gökhan Töre – Footballer Caner Topaloğlu – Basketball player Tunay Torun – Footballer Gülnur Tumbat (born 1975) - Mountaineer and ultramarathon runner Talat Tunçalp (born c.

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