Beşiktaş Cola Turka

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Beşiktaş Cola Turka

Full name	Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Kara Kartallar (The Black Eagles)
Founded	1903
Ground	BJK Akatlar Arena, Istanbul, Turkey (Capacity: 4.500)
Chairman	Yıldırım Demirören
Manager	Hakan Demir
League	Beko Basketball League
2007-08	Beko Basketball League, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Beşiktaş Cola Turka is the basketball team of Beşiktaş J.K., which is a Turkish sports club from İstanbul. They play their matches at Akatlar Spor Salonu. Beşiktaş played Turkish Basketball League except 1988-89 season due to their relegation to Second League in 1987-88 season.

They are called Beşiktaş Cola Turka because of the sponsorship agreement with the Ülker food company.

Contents 1 Men's roster 2 Notable Former Players 3 Honors 4 Women's roster 4.1 Notable players 4.2 Honors 5 External links

[edit] Men's roster

Beşiktaş Cola Turka roster v • d • e
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. 4.5 F/C 44 USA  Wesson, K'zell 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 1.0 PG 32 USA  Chatman, Mire 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 1.0 PG 5 Turkey  Güler, Muratcan 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 5.0 C 15 USA  Mims, Dennis 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 4.5 F/C 21 Turkey  Ören, Adem 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 1.0 PG 11 USA  Baxter, Jimmy 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 4.5 F/C 41 Turkey  Özer, Cevher 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 1.0 PG 12 Turkey  Soğancıoğlu, Arın 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 1.0 PG 19 Turkey  Turgut, Azmi 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 3.0 SF 13 Turkey  Ünver, Ömer 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 1.0 PG 4 Turkey  Yağmur, Mehmet 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 3.0 SF 14 Turkey  Yıldırım, Haluk 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	Head coach Hakan Demir Assistant coach(es) Hamdi Uluğ Zafer Sağlam Legend (C) Team captain (*) Playing only in EuroCup Injured Roster • updated 2008-06-24

[edit] Notable Former Players

Cevher Özer Faruk Beşok Fatih Solak Haluk Yıldırım Hüsnü Çakırgil Kerem Tunçeri Levent Topsakal Muratcan Güler Ömer Büyükaycan

Tamer Oyguç Ufuk Sarıca Kaya Peker Brett Maher Sandro Nicević Tomislav Ruzic Kimani Ffriend Virginijus Praškevičius Predrag Drobnjak

Christian Dalmau Larry Ayuso Rick Apodaca Ratko Varda Andre Woolridge Brian Chase Bud Eley Donnell Harvey Ivan McFarlin

Jamel Thomas James Blackwell Jo Jo English Kevin Thompson Khalid El-Amin Michael Wright Preston Shumpert Tyrone Ellis William Njoku Mire Chatman

[edit] Honors

• Turkish League (1): 1975

[edit] Women's roster

• 04Jelena Spiric
• 05Seda Erdoğan
• 06Esra Erden
• 07Alexis Hornbuckle
• 08Melike Kanlı
• 09Ayşe Dilek Ünüvar
• 10Sariye Gökçe
• 11Nazlı Güler
• 12Aysun Akova
• 13Korona Longin-Zanze
• 14Stacey Lovelace-Tolbert
• 15Vanessa Hayden
• 16Laura Harper
• 17Shay Doron

[edit] Notable players

• Gülşah Akkaya
• Yasemin Horasan
• Şaziye İvegin
• Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu
• Arzu Özyiğit
• Esmeral Tunçluer
• Nilay Yiğit
• Müjde Yüksel
• Vanessa Hayden
• Stacey Lovelace-Tolbert
• Sheri Sam
• Korona Longin-Zanze
• Jelena Spiric

[edit] Honors

• Turkish League (1): 2005
• Turkish President's Cup (1): 2006

[edit] External links

• Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü Home Page
• (Turkish) Beşiktaş J.K. Websites & News
• (Turkish) Unofficial Fan Site and Forum
• (English) Statistics
• (English) Besiktas JK fan site
• Men's Squad
• Women's Squad
• BJK Basket Web Pages

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