Emircan Koşut

Emircan Koşut — Biography

Emircan Koşut is a 2.16-metre center and power forward who came out of the generation that won European titles with Turkey's youth national teams. Today he wears the shirt of Türk Telekom in the Basketbol Süper Ligi and EuroCup.

He started playing at ten with Bayrampaşa Sancak and joined the Anadolu Efes youth setup in 2011. In 2012-13 he was loaned to Efes's pilot team Pertevniyal of the TB2L, won the Turkish Youth Championship with it and was named the tournament's most valuable player and best center. In the summer of 2014 he moved up to the Anadolu Efes first team and was released on June 20, 2016. In June 2017 he agreed with Darüşşafaka. In autumn 2020 he had hand surgery and went through a long injury spell. He moved to Merkezefendi in the summer of 2021 and joined Türk Telekom in the summer of 2025.

He also had early success with the national teams: he won gold with the under-18 side at the 2013 European Youth Championship and gold again with the under-20 side at the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship in Crete. In 2015 he was part of the squad that won bronze at the same tournament in Italy and was named to the All-Tournament Team. As a teenager he was regarded as one of the promising big men of his time.