Türk Telekom Basketbol Kulübü ( English: Turk Telekom Basketball Club) is a professional

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team that is based in

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. The team is currently playing in the

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. It is a branch of the

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sports club. Their home arena is the

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. The arena, which has a capacity of 10,400 seats, opened in April 2010.

History

The club was founded in 1954 and opened its basketball section as name of PTT in 1991. Thereafter, the team received name of Türk Telekom PTT in 1996. Recently, the team is continuing with the name of Türk Telekom. Türk Telekom has won the

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title after beating Oyak Renault in 2008. Also, the team won the Turkish President's Cup title after beating Fenerbahçe Ülker that year. Türk Telekom also has a reserve team as name of Genç Telekom. They compete in the

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. In September 2011, first Turkish

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player

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of the

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announced he would play for Türk Telekom, due to the

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. In

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, Türk Telekom relegated from the BSL after finishing 15th in the regular season. In 2018, the team returned as it promoted from the Turkish First League. In its first season back, the club would also play in the EuroCup, as the club returns to Europe after 6 years. The club played in the finals of the

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season and achieved the runners-up position.

Home arenas

Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall () is an Indoor arena, indoor sport arena located in the district of Ulus, Ankara, Ulus in Ankara, Turkey. The hall with a seating capacity for 4,500 people and a parking lot for 500 cars was built in 1969. Home of the c ...

(1991–2011) *

(2011–present)

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

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* Barış Ermiş * Berk Demir *

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* Cevher Özer *

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* Erdal Bibo * Erkan Yılmaz *

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* Murat Evliyaoğlu *--

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* Rıdvan Öncel *

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* Ermal Kuqo * Tyler Ennis *

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* Lukša Andrić *

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* Axel Bouteille * Jan Jagla * Heiko Schaffartzik *

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* Sani Bečirović *

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* Goran Jagodnik * Marijan Kraljević * Luka Bogdanović * Mirko Milićević * Miroslav Radošević * Derrick Alston * Dee Brown * Richard Coffey *

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* Sam Dekker *-

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* Tony Gaffney * Jerian Grant * Nick Johnson *

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* Johnny O'Bryant * Steven Rogers * Josh Shipp * Mitch Smith * Greg Stiemsma * Jared Terrell * Tyrone Wallace * K'zell Wesson * Trevor Wilson * Rickie Winslow * Kennedy Winston *- Michael Wright

Honours

Domestic competitions

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: ''Runners-up (2):'' 1996–97, 2007–08 *

: Winners (1): 2007–08 : ''Runners-up (4):'' 1995–96, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2002–03 * Turkish Supercup : Winners (2): 1997, 2008 : ''Runners-up (1):'' 1996

European competitions

* EuroCup : ''Runners-up (1):'' 2022–23

Season by season

: Cancelled due to the

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References

External links

Official Website

TBLStat.net Profile

Eurobasket.com Page
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