İlkay Durmuş

İlkay Durmuş — Biography

İlkay Durmuş was born on May 1, 1994, in Stuttgart to a family of Turkish migrants in Germany. He began his football career in the youth system of 1899 Hoffenheim before moving to VfB Stuttgart's under-19 side, where he scored 4 goals in 26 appearances in the 2010-11 season and 3 goals in 21 appearances in 2011-12.

On June 20, 2012, he signed a four-year contract with Süper Lig club Gençlerbirliği. He spent his first season with the club's A2 reserve team and was promoted to the first team the following season, though his only appearance for Gençlerbirliği came in a 2-1 Turkish Cup win over Bergama Belediyespor on October 31, 2013, in which he played the full 90 minutes. Having failed to get the chances he hoped for, he transferred to Antalyaspor on January 28, 2014, and made his Süper Lig debut on May 18, 2014.

He moved to Austrian club Floridsdorfer AC in January 2015 and signed a two-year deal with Scottish club St Mirren in July 2019, later playing in Poland for Lechia Gdańsk and I liga side Polonia Warsaw. At youth international level he played for Germany's under-16 and under-17 teams from 2009 to 2011 before switching to represent Turkey in 2011, going on to play for Turkey's under-17, under-18, under-19 and under-20 sides; his last recorded youth cap came in a friendly against Belgium under-18 in İzmit on February 21, 2012.