İpek Kaya

İpek Kaya — Biography

İpek Kaya is a defender who was born and raised in France and chose to represent the Turkey women's national team, and who holds both French and Turkish citizenship. She has played for Turkey since 2015; since being announced at Fenerbahçe on August 4, 2023, she has played there, winning the 2025-26 Süper Lig with the club.

Born to Turkish immigrant parents in L'Aigle, in Orne, she started in 2004 at her hometown club FC du Pays Aiglon and in 2010 moved to FCF Condé, then in the French top division. In 2015-16 she signed for ASJ Soyaux-Charente and made her league debut on December 13, 2015, against Guingamp. She then played 2016-17 at Stade Brestois 29 and spent three seasons from 2017-18 at FC Metz, where she was also captain. She returned to Brest in June 2020 and went to Soyaux a second time in 2022, making her league debut for the club against PSG and scoring her first league goal against Fleury on October 1, 2022.

She was selected twice for the France women's under-19 team, then chose Turkey. She made her national-team debut in a friendly against Georgia on February 24, 2015, and played in the qualifying groups for Euro 2017, the 2019 World Cup and Euro 2021. She is a law student.