Özhan Canaydın

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Özhan Canaydın is the current chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.

Born in 1943 in Bursa, Canaydın began to play professional basketball in 1958.

In 1957, he became the youngest member of the Galatasaray organization with the registration number 155.

Playing with Turkey's national youth team that won the European Youth Championship in 1962, Canaydın was also among the eight players of the Galatasaray basketball team that won the Turkish Championship. He was a member of Galatasaray star, junior and senior basketball teams and participated in the teams that became Turkish champions. He retired from basketball in 1964.

Canaydın graduated from Galatasaray Lycee in 1963 and married Asuman Canaydın in 1965. He has two children and four grandchildren. His son, Murat Canaydın also graduated from Galatasaray Lycee and runs the family business now.

Canaydın started his business career in 1963 in the textile sector, in which his father had a company.

Özhan Canaydın assigned his business to professional managers after being elected as President of Galatasaray in 2002. Canaydin has also served Galatasaray under the presidencies of Ali Tanrıyar, Alp Yalman and legendary President Faruk Süren.

Canaydin was re-elected chairman of Galatasaray on March 25, 2006.