Barış Ataş

Barış Ataş — Biography

Barış Ataş is a former footballer who was born in Kulp, Diyarbakır, and made his way from the Diyarbakırspor academy to Trabzonspor. The Turkish press called him the "atom ant" for his restless style of play. He won the 2010 Turkish Super Cup with Trabzonspor and spent the closing years of his career at Amed Sportif Faaliyetler.

He began at Diyarbakır Et Balıkspor and joined the Diyarbakırspor academy in 2002. He moved up to the first team in 2005-06 under Nejat Biyediç and came on in the final minutes of a cup match against Giresunspor on December 21, 2005; Faruk Hadžibegić then gave him a place in the starting eleven, and he played 9 league games that season. In the following years he was out for about seven months on two separate occasions through injury. In 2008-09 he was given number 21, the license-plate code of Diyarbakır, and in 2009-10 he captained the side and was its most-capped player of the season. He had first been called up to the Turkey under-19s in 2006.

On June 22, 2010, he signed a 3+1-year contract with Trabzonspor and wore number 21 there too, playing 17 league games in 2010-11. When he found no place in 2011-12 he was loaned to Mersin İdman Yurdu, where he played 6 games. After returning to Trabzonspor his contract was terminated and he moved to Adanaspor in 2013. He then played for Diyarbekirspor (2015), Manisa Büyükşehir Belediyespor (2016) and, from 2018, Amed Sportif Faaliyetler.