Çekdar Orhan

Çekdar Orhan
Personal information
Date of birth	8 March 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth	Hakkâri, Turkey
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Amed
Number	10
Youth career
2014–2015	Borussia Mönchengladbach
2015	Wuppertaler SV
2016–2017	1. FC Mönchengladbach
2017–2018	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
2018–2019	Galatasaray
Senior career*
Years	Team
2019–2021	Akhisarspor
2021–2024	Giresunspor
2022	→ Tuzlaspor (loan)
2022–2023	→ Tuzlaspor (loan)
2023	→ Amed (loan)
2024–	Amed
International career‡
2016	Turkey U16
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 August 2024; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 03:08, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Çekdar Orhan (born 8 March 1998) is a Turkish football player of Kurdish descent who plays as a forward for TFF First League club Amed.

Career

Born in Turkey and raised in Germany, Orhan is a youth product of the German clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach, Wuppertaler SV, 1. FC Mönchengladbach and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. He returned to Turkey with the academy of Galatasaray in 2018.^[1] He began his senior career with Akhisarspor in the TFF First League in 2019, before transferring to Giresunspor on 15 August 2021.^[2] He made his professional debut with Giresunspor in a 2-1 Süper Lig loss to Antalyaspor on 1 November 2021.^[3]

Orhan is the nephew of the Kurdish actors Yılmaz Erdoğan and Ersin Korkut.^[4]

^ için, Hakan Keleş: "Kaybettik ve üzüntülüyüz"daha fazla video. "Çekdar Orhan, Galatasaray'dan Akhisarspor'a gitti!". Milliyet.
^ için, Hakan Keleş: "Kaybettik ve üzüntülüyüz"daha fazla video. "Giresunspor, Çekdar Orhan'ı transfer etti". Milliyet.
^ "Giresunspor vs. Antalyaspor - 1 November 2021 - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com.
^ Haber, Internet (4 January 2019). "Galatasaray Yılmaz Erdoğan'ın yeğeni ile sözleşme imzaladı". www.internethaber.com.