Turkey national basketball team

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Turkey

FIBA ranking

Joined FIBA

1936

FIBA zone

FIBA Europe

National federation

Turkish Basketball Federation (TBF)

Coach

Unknown

Olympic Games

Appearances

Unknown

Medals

None

World Championships

Appearances

(2) 2002, 2006

Medals

None

Eurobasket

Appearances

Unknown

Medals

Silver: 2001

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The Turkey national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Turkey in international competitions. The team is nicknamed "12 Dev Adam" (literally: "12 Giant Men"); though a new nickname, "12 Cesur Yürek" (12 Brave Hearts) was proposed after the young and inexperienced team's surprising performance in the 2006 World Championship, despite not having star players Hedo Türkoğlu, Mehmet Okur, Mirsad Türkcan, Kerem Tunçeri and Hüseyin Beşok.

1 Eurobasket 1949
2 Eurobasket 1951
3 Eurobasket 1955
4 Eurobasket 1957
5 Eurobasket 2001
6 Mediterranean Games 2005
7 Eurobasket 2005
8 World Championship 2006
9 World Championship 2010
10 Current squad
11 Former notable national team members
12 See also
13 References

[edit] Eurobasket 1949

Turkey's European championship debut came at Eurobasket 1949, held in Cairo, Egypt. The Turks split their six games in the seven-team round robin tournament, finishing with three wins and three losses for 4th place.

[edit] Eurobasket 1951

Turkey competed again at Eurobasket 1951 in Paris. Their only loss in the preliminary round was to the Soviet Union as Turkey earned the second-rank spot with a 3-1 record. Their single loss to Bulgaria in the semifinal round, however, was enough to bump them from championship contention as they came out on the bottom of a three-way tie with a 2-1 record. They won their classificiation 5-8 game, but lost the 5/6 game to Italy.

[edit] Eurobasket 1955

Turkey returned after missing 1953's edition to Eurobasket 1955 in Budapest. They went 1-2 in their preliminary round group, taking third in the pool and moving to classification play. There they lost only to France on their way to a 3-1 record in classification round 1. They lost their 9-12 semifinal by 1 point to Finland, but defeated England 77-54 in the next game to take 11th place of the 18 team tournament.

[edit] Eurobasket 1957

Turkey appeared again at Eurobasket 1957 in Sofia. Losing to the Soviet Union and Poland in the preliminary round, Turkey took third in the group to be sent to the classification pool. They defeated each of the other seven teams in the classification round in order to take 9th place of the 16 teams.

[edit] Eurobasket 2001

The Turkey national basketball team, which rose to final at Eurobasket 2001 in Istanbul for the first time, was defeated by Yugoslavia with a score of 69-78 and won the silver medal. Spanish basketball team became third defeating Germany 99-90.

[edit] Mediterranean Games 2005

Turkish team reached the semifinals at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain. The bronze medal match, it played against the Spain national basketball team, but became fourth losing 84-70.

[edit] Eurobasket 2005

Turkey qualified for Eurobasket 2005 held in Serbia and Montenegro, but lost to Lithuania (87-75) and Croatia (80-67) defeating only Bulgaria (94-89) in the preliminary round. It took third in the group to be sent to the classification pool. Germany eliminated Turkish team defeating 66-57. It achieved the final standing 9-12.

[edit] World Championship 2006

Turkey was awarded one of the four wild cards by FIBA for the qualification to the Basketball World Championship 2006 in Japan.

Turkish squad completed the prilimary rounds in Group C at second place after the Greek team, and was entitled to play in the round of 16, winning 4 matches against Lithuania (76-74), Australia (76-68), Brazil (73-71) and Qatar (76-69) of the total 5, beaten only by Greece (69-76) in the last match. The young team made also achievements such as the first official win over Lithuania and the first ever 4 consequtive wins in a championship. On August 26, 2006 Turkish national team qualified for Elite Eight defeating Slovenia by 90-84.

[edit] World Championship 2010

In 2010, Turkey will host the FIBA World Championships.

[edit] Current squad

Position	Player	Born	Height	Current Club
Guard	Engin Atsür	1984	1.93	North Carolina State Wolfpack (NCAA player)
Guard	Ender Arslan	1983	1.88	Panionios Forthnet
Guard	Hakan Demirel	1986	1.92	Fenerbahçe Ülker
Guard	Serkan Erdoğan	1978	1.90	TAU Cerámica
Guard/Forward	İbrahim Kutluay	1974	1.97	Fenerbahçe Ülker (former NBA player)
Guard/Forward	Ersan Ilyasova	1987	2.08	Milwaukee Bucks (NBA player)
Forward	Cenk Akyol	1987	1.98	Efes Pilsen (drafted by the NBA, but has yet to play in the league)
Forward	Kerem Gönlüm	1977	2.08	Efes Pilsen
Forward/Center	Ermal Kurtoğlu	1980	2.07	Efes Pilsen
Forward/Center	Kaya Peker	1980	2.07	TAU Cerámica
Center	Fatih Solak	1980	2.16	Galatasaray Cafe Crown
Center	Semih Erden	1986	2.14	Fenerbahçe Ülker

[edit] Former notable national team members

Can Bartu
Mehmet Okur
Mirsad Türkcan
Hedo Türkoğlu
Harun Erdenay
Haluk Yıldırım

[edit] See also

Turkey national women's basketball team

[edit] References

International basketball

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Asia: FIBA Asia – Asian Championship Africa: FIBA Africa – Africa Championship Americas: FIBA Americas – Americas Championship Oceania: FIBA Oceania – Oceania Championship Europe: FIBA Europe – Eurobasket