Enver Cenk Şahin

Enver Cenk Şahin — Biography

Enver Cenk Şahin, also known as Cenk Şahin, is a footballer who plays on the right wing and in midfield. He came through the İstanbul Başakşehir youth system, scored twice for Turkey at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup and moved to St. Pauli in Germany. He joined İstanbulspor in September 2025.

Şahin joined Başakşehir in 2010 and reached the Süper Lig in 2011-12. In 2013-14 he contributed four goals and four assists as the team won the First League, and he scored his first Süper Lig goal on March 14, 2015, an 85th-minute equalizer in a 2-2 draw with Galatasaray. In July 2016 he was loaned to St. Pauli, scored his first German goal with a late header against Bielefeld, and a goal against Greuther Fürth was voted goal of the month in Germany. The club took up its option in 2017 and signed him permanently; in January 2019 he was loaned to Ingolstadt until the end of the season.

In October 2019, after a social-media post supporting Turkey's military operation in northern Syria, St. Pauli dropped him from the squad and his contract was ended by mutual consent in November 2019. He joined Kayserispor in January 2020 and Gaziantep FK on a three-year deal in August 2020. He signed for Bursaspor in 2022, captained the side and left in July 2023, and joined Şanlıurfaspor in September 2023.