Gaziantep Basketbol is a professional basketball team based in the city of
Gaziantep
Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximat ...
in
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
that plays in the
Turkish Basketball Super League
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
. Their home arena is the
Karataş Şahinbey Sport Hall
Karataş Şahinbey Sport Hall ( tr, Karataş Şahinbey Spor Salonu) is an indoor multi-purpose sport venue that is located in the Gaziantep, Turkey. Opened in 2010, the hall has a seating capacity of 6,400 spectators. It is home to Gaziantep Bask ...
with a capacity of 6,400 seats.
History
The team was founded in 2007. In 2011 the club promoted to the
Second Division
In sport, the Second Division, also called Division 2 or Division II is usually the second highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Following the rise of Premier League style compet ...
.
[Eurobasket.com – Gaziantep Basketbol – History]
/ref> In the 2011–12 season, the team promoted to the top tier TBL
Part of the troff suite of Unix document layout tools, tbl is a preprocessor that formats tables in preparation for processing with troff/nroff.
Overview
Mike Lesk is the original author of tbl. Like the main troff program, it uses command l ...
.Turkish
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
carpet producer) became head sponsor of the team and the team was re-named to Royal Halı Gaziantep. After the 2015–16 season, the team had financial problems after Royal Halı withdrew and was forced to leave the top tier. After all, the