Emircan Koşut

Emircan Koşut — Biography

Emircan Koşut was born on 3 July 1995 in the Gaziosmanpaşa district of Istanbul. A 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) basketball player, he plays center and power forward. He took up the game at ten with Bayrampaşa Sancak, and in 2011 he joined the junior setup of Anadolu Efes, the year his professional path began.

He was loaned for 2012-13 to Pertevniyal, Efes's feeder club, and with that team won the Turkish youth championship, being named the championship's most valuable player and best center. He moved up to the Anadolu Efes first team in the summer of 2014 and left the club on 20 June 2016. He signed with Darüşşafaka in 2017; in 2020, while with Darüşşafaka Tekfen, he had surgery on his hand and was out for a long spell. In 2021 he moved to Yukatel Merkezefendi.

Koşut was prominent in the youth national teams: he won gold with the U-18 side at the 2013 European Championship and with the U-20 side in Crete in 2014, then took bronze with the U-20s in Italy in 2015 and was picked for the all-tournament team. In the summer of 2025 he joined Türk Telekom, with whom he competes in the Basketbol Süper Ligi and EuroCup.