Özlem Başyurt (born September 20, 1971) is a Turkish former
women's football Women's football most often refers to:
* Women's association football
Women's football may also refer to:
* Women's gridiron football
* Women's Australian rules football
* Ladies' Gaelic football
* Women's rugby league
* Women's rugby union
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er. She was a member of the Turkey women's national football team. She played briefly basketball and serves as a basketball coach. She works as a high school teacher of physical education.
Sports career
Football
She obtained her license for the
Ankara
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
Ukraine
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on August 24, 1996.
Basketball
Başyurt played basketball for Çevre Orman SK in the 2006–07 season. In 2014, she obtained a D-category basketball coach certificate. In the 2016–17 season, she coached the team Sortie in
Büyükçekmece
Büyükçekmece, historically Athyras (Greek: Αθύρας) is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 173 km2, and its population is 277,181 (2022). It is on the Sea of Marmara coast of the European side, west o ...
, Istanbul, which she is the president of.
Personal life
Özlem Başyurt was born in
Giresun
Giresun () is a city in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon. It is the seat of Giresun Province and Giresun District. She completed the middle school in her hometown. After finishing the Çankaya İMKB Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School, she studied Physical Education at
Gazi University
Gazi University () is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Ankara, Turkey.
It was founded in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk originally as the Gazi Education Institute (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Gazi Eğitim Ens ...
in
Ankara
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
. She works as a teacher of physical education at Tevfik Ercan Anadolu High School in Florya, Bakırköy,
Istanbul
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