Çekdar Orhan (born 8 March 1998) is a Turkish

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player of Kurdish descent who plays as a forward for

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club

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Career

Born in Turkey and raised in Germany, Orhan is a youth product of the German clubs

Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, better known as Borussia Mönchengladbach () and colloquially known as just Gladbach, is a professional Association football, football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-W ...

Wuppertaler SV Wuppertaler SV is a Football in Germany, German association football club located in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. The city was founded in the year of 1880 by the union of a number of smaller towns including Elberfeld, Barmen, Vohwinkel, Cr ...

, 1. FC Mönchengladbach and

Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is a German association football club in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was formed as ''Oberhausener SV'' in December 1904 out of the merger of ''Emschertaler SV'' (1902) and the football enthusiasts of ''Oberh ...

. He returned to Turkey with the academy of

Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Galatasaray and familiarly as Cimbom, is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul including basketball, wheelchair ...

in 2018. He began his senior career with Akhisarspor in the

in 2019, before transferring to

Giresunspor Giresunspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Giresun. History Giresunspor was founded in 1925 and re-formed in 1967 after the merger of Yeşiltepespor, Akıngençlikspor, and Beşiktaşspor. The football club is playing ...

on 15 August 2021. He made his professional debut with

in a 2-1

Süper Lig The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), also known as Trendyol Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Turkey and the highest level of the Turkish football league system. In the 2023–2024 season, twen ...

loss to

Antalyaspor Antalyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional multi-sport club based in Antalya, southern Turkey. The club's colours are red and white. The association football, football side play their home matches at the Antalya Stadium. In Turkey, the cl ...

on 1 November 2021.

Personal life

Orhan is the nephew of the Kurdish actors Yılmaz Erdoğan and Ersin Korkut.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Orhan, Cekdar 1998 births Living people People from Hakkâri Turkish men's footballers Turkey men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders Akhisarspor footballers Giresunspor footballers Tuzlaspor players Süper Lig players TFF 1. Lig players TFF Second League players Turkish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Germany 21st-century Turkish sportsmen