Orhun Ene

Orhun Ene — Biography

Orhun Ene began as one of the point guards of 1990s Turkish basketball and carried on in coaching, serving the national team both as a player and as head coach. At the end of March 2026 he took over Basketbol Süper Ligi club Aliağa Petkimspor, and he is continuing with the team into the new season.

A graduate of Galatasaray High School, he had to break off his economics studies because of his basketball career. After playing for Ortaköy, Eczacıbaşı, Paşabahçe and Fenerbahçe he moved to Ülkerspor in 1993 and played four seasons in the EuroLeague; he went to Galatasaray in 1997 and to İTÜ from 2001 to 2003. He won league titles with Eczacıbaşı in 1988 and 1989 and with Ülker in 1995. He earned 202 national-team caps: he was in the side that took gold at the 1987 Mediterranean Games, was the point guard at the 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001 European championships, and won silver in 2001.

As a coach he first worked as an assistant with the senior national team and as head coach of the under-20s; in 2011 he replaced Bogdan Tanjević as head coach of the senior side, but resigned when the team went out in the second round of the EuroBasket in Lithuania. He spent four seasons at Banvit, reached the 2013 final after eliminating Anadolu Efes and lost it to Galatasaray. He took Darüşşafaka up to the top league in 2014 and worked at Tofaş; in 2022 his role with the national team ended.