Emine Demir

Emine Demir — Biography

Emine Demir is a defender who came from a village in Hakkâri to the upper tiers of Turkish women's football and the national team. She has played for Turkey at every level from under-17 to the senior side; in the Women's Super League she now wears number 6 for Yüksekova.

She began playing football in the village of Taşbaşı, at the regional boarding primary school run by the Association for the Support of Contemporary Living. Malatya Gençlik ve Spor took out her license in 2007 and gave her a scholarship to study at the sports high school in Malatya. After a first season in the Women's Second League she reached the First League with Mersin Camspor, then moved to Adana İdmanyurdusporu in 2010-11 and to Trabzon İdmanocağı in 2012. She stayed there three and a half seasons, and the team finished third in 2014-15 and 2015-16. She then went back to her hometown club Hakkarigücü, who were Second League runners-up in 2017-18 and rose to the First League in 2018-19. In October 2019 she transferred to Ataşehir Belediyespor and in August 2022 to Galatasaray, returning to Fatih Vatanspor in the second half of 2022-23.

Her national-team path began in 2008 with her first under-17 match, against the Faroe Islands. She joined the under-19 side in 2011 and earned 19 caps there, and played for the under-21s in a November 2014 friendly against Belgium. Called up to the senior team in February 2015, she made her debut on August 19, 2015, in a friendly against Albania.