Selen Gül Altunkulak (born 2 December 1997) is a women's association footballwomen's football

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who plays for

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club

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

. Born in France, she represents

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at international level.

Club career

Altunkulak played in the U19 youth team of FC Vendenheim in the 2011–12 season and of FCF Monteux in 2012–13 season. Between 2013 and 2015, she was a member of FC Vendenheim again. In the 2015–16 season, she transferred to FC Metz-Algrange . For the

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season, she signed on 1 July 2019 with

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, which was recently promoted from the Division 2 Féminine. She signed with

Rodez Rodez (, , ; , ) is a small city and commune in the South of France, about 150 km northeast of Toulouse. It is the prefecture of the department of Aveyron, region of Occitania (formerly Midi-Pyrénées). Rodez is the seat of the communau ...

on 29 January 2022, and played two seasons. On 12 January 2024, she transferred to

. In the 2023-24

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season, she appeared in 21 matches and scored 33 goals. She scored also one goal in two matches of the

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International career

She was admitted to the Turkey women's national team, and debuted internationally in the Goldcity Women's Cup 2017 on 1 March 2017, and scored her first international goal. She took part at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round – Group 4 matches. In the second match of the tournament, she scored a

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in the match against

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on 8 April 2017.

Honours

;Individual * ''Top goalscorer'' (1): 2022–23

with

References

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Turkey player profile
1997 births Living people Footballers from Valence, Drôme French sportspeople of Turkish descent 21st-century French sportswomen Turkish women's footballers 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Women's association football midfielders Turkey women's international footballers French women's footballers Première Ligue players FC Metz (women) players Olympique de Marseille (women) players Rodez AF (women) players Toulouse FC (women) players {{France-women-footy-bio-stub