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Mehmet Okur

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محمد أوكور

Turkish former basketball player and coach (born 1979 at Yalova), the first Turkish player to win an NBA championship (with the Detroit Pistons in 2004); he played seven seasons for the Utah Jazz and in 2016 became the first Turkish citizen to coach in the NBA.

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Roles
basketball player · coach
Region
Anatolia · Americas & Oceania
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Wikidata

Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Rahman Badawi

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    Unknown (unknown)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1979

    Sources

    • Mehmet Okur — English Wikipedia
    • Mehmet Okur — Turkish Wikipedia
    • محمد أوكور — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Mehmet Okur — Wikidata
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Mehmet Okur”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mehmet-okur/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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