Aziz Yıldırım (born 2 November 1952) is a Turkish businessman and civil engineer who served as the 36th chairman of the Turkish

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Fenerbahçe SK. He lost the election held on 3 June 2018 to Ali Koç which made him the 37th president of the Turkish club. He served the club as the president from 1998 to 2018. He has a degree in

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Club's honours

Football

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: 2007–08 (quarter-final) *

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: 2012–13 (semi-final) * Turkish Süper Lig (6) : 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2006–07,

2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

, 2013–14 * Türkiye Kupası (2): 2011-2012, 2012-2013 * Süper Kupa (3):

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

* Başbakanlık Kupası (1) :

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

* Atatürk Kupası (1) :

Men's basketball

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(1): 2016–17, 2015–16 (runner-up), 2017–18 (runner-up), 2014–15 (Fourth) * TBL (7): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10,

, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17 * Türkiye Kupası (4): 2009–10,

, 2012–13, 2015–16 * Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası (4): 2006–07, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17

Women's basketball

* EuroLeague Women: 2012–13 (runner-up), 2013–14 (runner-up), 2016–17 (runner-up), 2015–16 (Third), 2011–12 (Fourth), 2014–15 (Fourth) * TKBL (13): 1998–99, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10,

, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2017–18 * Türkiye Kupası (11): 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2014–15, 2015–16 * Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası (11): 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15

Men's volleyball

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(1) : 2013–14 * BVA Kupası (2): 2009–10, 2013–14 * Voleybol Ligi (4): 2007–08, 2009–10,

, 2011–12 * Türkiye Kupası (3): 2007–08, 2011–12, 2016–17 * Voleybol Süper Kupa (3):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

Women's volleyball

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(1):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

(Third) * Women's CEV Champions League (1): 2011–12, 2009–10 (runner-up), 2015–16,

(Third) *

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(1): 2013–14, 2012–13 (runner-up), 2008–09 (Third) * Voleybol Ligi (5): 2008–09, 2009–10,

, 2014–15, 2016–17 * Türkiye Kupası (3): 2009–10, 2014–15, 2016–17 * Voleybol Süper Kupa (3):

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Athletics

* Avrupa Kulüpler Şampiyonası (men's) (1):

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

(runner-up) * Avrupa Kulüpler Şampiyonası (women's):

(runner-up)

Boxing

* Avrupa Kulüpler Şampiyonası:

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

(runner-up)

Swimming

* CIJ Meet Kupası (2):

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Table Tennis

* ETTU Champions League (1) : 2014–15, 2013–14 (runner-up) * ETTU Kupası (2): 2011–12, 2012–13, 2007–08 (runner-up)

Personal life

Yıldırım was born in Ergani. He has 3 daughters, two of whom are from his first marriage.

2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal

On 2 July 2012, a Turkish "Special Authority Court" sentenced Yıldırım to three years and nine months for match-fixing and two years and six months for forming an illegal organisation. The sentence was later approved by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals. He was detained for one year in Metris Prison together with several other sportspeople involved in the

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. However, on 6 March 2014 special authority courts were abolished in Turkey. On 23 July 2014, his earlier retrial demand was accepted, meaning that he and all the people involved will have a retrial about this case. The first trial of the retrial process was made on 24 April 2015. On 9 October 2015, the courts acquitted Aziz Yıldırım and all the people who were charged at the beginning of the investigation, pending the Supreme Court's approval. Fenerbahce declared that after the Supreme Court's approval, they would take every action to be compensated from all of the damages that has been done to the club by this investigation and previous court rulings. In June 2018 Yildirim faced fierce competition in his bid to be reelected president of Fenerbahce, a role he had held since 1998 in which he lost to Ali Koç.

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