Türk Telekom Basketbol Kulübü (

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: 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

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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

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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 2011 NBA lockout. In

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

, 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.

Home arenas

Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall ( tr, Ankara Atatürk Spor Salonu) is an indoor sport arena located in the district of 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 ...

(1991–2011) *

(2011–present)

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Alper Yılmaz Alper Yılmaz (born 28 March 1975 in Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball player of Erdemirspor. The shooting guard and small forward is 2.00 m tall and 80 kg weights. Alper wears 11 number for Erdemirspor. Career * Türk Telekom P ...

Barış Ermiş Barış Ermiş (born January 3, 1985) is a Turkish professional former basketball player. Professional career On August 13, 2008, he has signed with Türk Telekom. After one season with Ermiş played for Türk Telekom, her transferred to Banvi ...

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Mirko Milićević Mirko Milićević ( sr-cyr, Мирко Милићевић; born August 2, 1965) is a Serbian-Turkish retired professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another o ...

Miroslav Radošević Miroslav "Mire" Radošević ( sr-cyr, Мирослав Радошевић; born February 6, 1973) is a Serbian basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as an assistant coach for the Banvit of the Turkish Super League and the Champio ...

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Honours

Turkish Basketball Cup The Turkish Basketball Cup ( tr, Basketbol Erkekler Türkiye Kupası), FIAT Turkish Basketball Cup for sponsorship consideration, is the Turkey men's professional basketball national cup tournament. It has been held and organised by the Turkish Bas ...

** Winners (1): 2007-08 *

Turkish Basketball Presidential Cup The Turkish Basketball Presidential Cup ( tr, Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası), sometimes referred to as Turkish Basketball Super Cup, is the professional men's basketball super cup competition that takes place each year in Turkey. The competition ...

** Winners (2): 1997, 2008

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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