Feride Şevval Akalan (born 14 October 2001) is a Turkish female

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player. The tall national plays

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. Akalan was a member of

Istanbul University Istanbul University, also known as University of Istanbul (), is a Public university, public research university located in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Mehmed II on May 30, 1453, a day after Fall of Constantinople, the conquest of Constantinop ...

and

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, which loaned out her to Mersin University. Currently, she plays in the

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for the

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-based club

Nesibe Aydın GSK Nesibe Aydın Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü is a Turkish women's basketball club based in Ankara, Turkey. The club was founded in 2010 and currently competing in the Women's Basketball Super League The Women's Basketball Super League (, KBSL), als ...

. She was part of the national U-16 team at the

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, Hungary that won the bronze medal. In January 2022, she was admitted to the

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. She took part at the

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, Algeria. She played at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Akalan, Feride 2001 births Living people Basketball players from Istanbul Turkish women's basketball players Small forwards 21st-century Turkish sportswomen 21st-century Turkish sportsmen Turkey women's national basketball team players İstanbul Üniversitesi basketball players Nesibe Aydın GSK players