Berkay Samancı (born 11 April 1989) is a Turkish professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Fethiyespor. He was also a youth international, having been capped by the Turkey U-18 side twice in 2007.

Club career

Samancı began his career with local club

Kocaelispor Kocaelispor is a Turkish professional football club based in İzmit, Kocaeli. They were founded in 1966 and played in the top level between 1980 and 1988, 1992–2003, and the 2008–09 seasons. Their best finish was in the 1992–93 season, w ...

in 2000. He was promoted to the senior team in 2006, and made his debut on 12 May 2007 against Hacettepe. After making his debut, Samancı was called up to the Turkey U-18 team for two friendly matches against Israel. He made his debut on 28 May 2007. He was transferred to

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on 20 August 2009, helping the team to a second-place finish in the

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and automatic promotion to the top-flight. Samancı was loaned to

club

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for the second half of the 2010–11 season.

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