Olcay Çakır

Olcay Çakır — Biography

Olcay Çakır Turgut is a 1.82-metre point guard who plays for Fenerbahçe Opet. She is known as the first Turkish basketball player taken in the WNBA draft: in 2013 the New York Liberty selected her 27th overall, in the third round. At club level she has won the EuroLeague Women twice, in 2023 and 2026, and finished runner-up in 2013, 2014 and 2022.

At Fenerbahçe, where she started playing basketball, she won the Turkish league in 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013, and in 2013 reached the EuroLeague Women Final Eight final with the team, finishing second. She took bronze at the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championships for Women in 2012 and 2013, and was named to the 2012 all-tournament team. Before the 2016-2017 season she moved to BGD Basketbol, a transfer whose timing drew heavy coverage in the local press. She returned to Fenerbahçe ahead of 2019-2020, signed with Spain's CB Avenida in 2023 and finished runner-up in the Liga Femenina in 2024, then went back to Fenerbahçe for the 2024-2025 season.

With the national team she represented Turkey at EuroBasket 2015 and at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and ahead of the 2026 World Cup she spoke as the team's captain. Her club honors include ten Turkish Women's Basketball League titles (between 2011 and 2026), the 2017 EuroCup Women and the 2024 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women, plus nine Presidential Cup wins. She is married.