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| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 12 June 2011 – 23 June 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | İstanbul (III) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1971-09-01)1 September 1971 (age 54) Sapanca, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Independent (2013–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Justice and Development Party (2011–2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Awards | State Medal of Distinguished Service (2002)[1] (later revoked) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hakan Şükür (Albanian:Shykyr; born 1 September 1971) is a Turkish former professionalfootballer who played as astriker. Nicknamed the "Bull of theBosphorus" andKral (king),[2][3][4][5] he spent the majority of his professional career withGalatasaray, being a three-timeGol Kralı (Goal King, title and award given to the annual top goalscorer of theSüper Lig),[6] representing the club in three different spells and winning a total of 14 major titles.[7][8][9]
Şükür representedTurkey a total of 112 times, scoring 51 goals, making him the nation's top goalscorer[10][11] and 19th in the world at the time of his retirement. One of the most prolific strikers of the modern era, he netted 383 goals throughout his club career as well asthe fastest ever in aWorld Cup, in2002.[12] He retired from football in 2008.[13]
In the2011 general elections, he was elected as an Istanbul MP for theJustice and Development Party. He resigned from the party in December 2013, to serve as anindependent.[14] He is wanted for arrest in Turkey since August 2016 for being a member ofGülen movement and has lived in exile in the United States since mid 2016.[15] On 14 July 2017, a decree was issued stating that all medals awarded to Hakan Şükür were to be revoked.[16]
Born inSapanca,Sakarya Province, Şükür began his football career with local clubSakaryaspor, making his professional debut shortly after his 17th birthday. His first goal came in a match againstEskişehirspor on 26 February 1989: with the match tied 2–2, he entered the pitch as asubstitute and scored the winning goal;[17] he went on to score a further 18Süper Lig goals in his three-year spell with the club.
In the summer of 1990, Şükür joined fellow first division sideBursaspor. He scored six goals in 27 games inhis second season, helping the team to a sixth-place finish,[18] and making hisTurkey national team debut shortly after.
Subsequently, Şükür signed for national giantsGalatasaray.[17]Nicknamed theBull of theBosphorus,[19] he scored 19 goals in thirty matches inhis first year with the club, helping it win both the league andcup titles, adding 16 and 19, respectively, in the next two seasons and attracting the attention ofTorino. In 1995, he moved to Turin, becoming the second Turkish player to ever play inSerie A, but returned to his country and Galatasaray in the following wintertransfer window, after failing to settle and only netting once in the league.
Upon his return to Galatasaray, Şükür regained his scoring form, scoring 16 goals inthe league and helping the club to win the cup. The following season, he collected 38 goals in the league, tying him for second-most goals scored in a season withMetin Oktay, one goal behind record holderTanju Çolak; both players were playing for Galatasaray when they broke the record.[17] Şükür also finished third in the ESM Golden Boot rankings with 57 points, behindMário Jardel (60) andRonaldo (68).[20] He won theGol Kralı award the following two seasons, netting 33 and 18 goals respectively, with the Galatasaray winning the title in all three seasons.[6][21]
In the1999–2000 season, Şükür's last with Galatasaray in his second stint, the team completed a domesticdouble for the second year in succession, and addedthe year'sUEFA Cup, becoming the first Turkish side to win aEuropean title; in the 4–1penalty shootout win againstArsenal, he scored on his attempt, having netted ten times in 17 games during the campaign.[22]
Şükür then moved to Italy again, this time toInter Milan, scoring six goals in 35 official matches. His appearances were limited by the presence ofRonaldo andChristian Vieri in the team's attack[23] and January 2002, after one-and-a-half seasons, he signed with another team in the country,Parma, but was unable to produce again, only finding the net three times. He helped Parma win the Coppa Italia, but only played in the first leg of thefinal.[24][25]
Having been released, on 9 December 2002, Şükür joinedBlackburn Rovers in thePremier League for the remainder of the campaign, signed by former Galatasaray managerGraeme Souness.[23] His spell began with him sustaining a broken leg in training, which ruled him out for two months,[26] after which made his debut for the club on 1 March 2003, replacing the injuredEgil Østenstad at half time in a 1–0 home win overManchester City;[27] he scored twice from nine appearances, both goals coming in a 4–0 defeat ofFulham atLoftus Road on 7 April.[28]
Şükür returned to Galatasaray on 7 July 2003, after failing to negotiate a new contract with Blackburn.[26] He scored 12 times in 28 league games inhis first season and 18 inthe following, with the team winning the2005 Turkish cup during that timeframe. Also, on 3 December 2003, he found the net twice in a 2–0 home defeat ofJuventus for the2003–04 UEFA Champions League;[29] in November 2003, to celebrateUEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as Turkey'sGolden Player by theTurkish Football Federation, as their most outstanding player of the past fifty years.[30]
In the2005–06 season, Şükür again scored in double digits (ten) as Galatasaray again won the league. After helping the club win a record-tying 17th first division title in2007–08, netting eleven goals, he decided to retire from the game, aged nearly 37. Subsequently, he often appeared as a televisionpundit on theTurkish Radio and Television Corporation;[31] during his career, he scored 38 goals in all European competitions.[32]
Şükür won his first cap forTurkey in a friendly withLuxembourg in March 1992 – his debut being awarded by German managerSepp Piontek – scoring his first international goal in his next match, againstDenmark, and totalling six in his first 11 appearances. He netted sevenin qualification forUEFA Euro 1996 and started all of the matches at the finals in England, in which they were eliminated inthe group stage without scoring a single goal.
Şükür scored eight times inqualification for the1998 FIFA World Cup: half of those in a 6–4 home win overWales on 20 August 1997,[33] but Turkey did not reach the play-offs. AtEuro 2000, he netted twice for the quarter-finalists, in a 2–0 group stage win against co-hostsBelgium.[34][35]
During the2002 World Cup, held in South Korea and Japan, Şükür scored once for Turkey in seven matches, as the national team finished in third place. On 29 June, he scored the fastest ever goal in aFIFA World Cup and in any major international football tournament, netting againstSouth Korea 10.8 seconds into the third-place play-off, which Turkey went on to win 3–2.[19]
Of his 112 senior appearances, Şükürcaptained Turkey in thirty. After appearing in someEuro 2008 qualifiers, notably scoring four againstMoldova in a 5–0 win inFrankfurt, Germany,[36] he was not selected for the finals, his last game being a 0–1 home loss toGreece at the age of 36 (17 October 2007).[37]
Şükür is ofAlbanian origin. Both of his parents are immigrants fromYugoslavia, his father being born inPristina, and his mother inSkopje.[7][8][9][38] His surname is spelled"Shykyr" in Albanian.[39] His first wife, Esra Elbirlik, married him in a ceremony broadcast live on television,[40] initiated byPrime MinisterTansu Çiller and performed byMayor of IstanbulRecep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The couple divorced after four months, and Elbirlik and her family died in the1999 İzmit earthquake. Şükür fathered three children with his second spouse, Beyda.[41] In 2010, the footballstadium of Sancaktepe was named after him.[42] In April 2014, his name was removed again.[42]
On 18 June 2011, Şükür was elected as aMember of Parliament to theGrand National Assembly of Turkey in the2011 general elections, from the rulingJustice and Development Party (AKP), representing the 2nd electoral district ofIstanbul Province.[43]
On 16 December 2013, Şükür, known for his links to the IslamicGülen movement of the Turkish clericFethullah Gülen,[14] resigned from his position in protest after the interdiction of the group's"dershane" system, and decided to continue working as an independent MP.[14][44] He subsequently went on to work as a football pundit forTurkish Radio and Television Corporation.[45]
In February 2016, Şükür was charged withinsulting presidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan onTwitter.[46] In August, a warrant was issued for his arrest as he was charged with being a member of theGülen movement, designated as a terrorist organization in Turkey.[47] In an interview published in May 2018 byThe New York Times, Hakan Şükür stated that he left Turkey in September 2015 and moved toCalifornia to be with a friend. He mentioned that after his term as amember of parliament ended in 2015, he faced obstacles in every job he tried to pursue in Turkey, which led him to decide to live in theUnited States.[48] He then called his wife and asked her to join him with their three children. After obtaining aninvestor EB-5 visa in the United States, he became a part-owner of a cafe inPalo Alto in 2016.[49] He would later leave this job because "strange people kept coming into the bar".[50] He noted that his long-term plan in the United States was not to run a cafe but to coach at a sports academy, similar to what he had planned to do in Turkey.[51] In November 2019, he revealed in a video on his YouTube channel that he was working as anUber driver.[52] Germany'sWelt am Sonntag, in an interview with Şükür, reported that he had closed his cafe to work as an Uber driver and was also selling books.[53] Additionally, he mentioned that the Turkish government had seized his properties, businesses, and bank accounts in Turkey.[54][50] On 3 April 2023, Hakan Şükür announced on his Twitter account that after seven-and-a-half years in the United States, he and his family had received theirgreen cards, which would allow them to reside and work in the US. As of August 2023, Hakan Şükür has opened a football school in Palo Alto, California, for boys aged 10-13 and 13-17.
The Turkish government seems to be still very sensitive to the subject. On 1 December 2022, during theTRT broadcast of aWorld Cup match betweenCanada andMorocco, which Morocco won 2-1, commentator Alper Bakircigil commented onHakim Ziyech's goal in the fourth minute about a record held by Şükür, who scored the fastest goal in World Cup history at 10.8 seconds, in their third place match againstSouth Korea at the2002 World Cup. He was removed from the broadcast at half-time and fired from his job later that day. News accounts speculated that his firing was due to his employer (state-run TRT) reacting to the mention of the name.[55][56]
| Club | Season | League | Cup[58] | Europe | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Sakaryaspor | 1987–88 | 1.Lig | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | |
| 1988–89 | 1.Lig | 11 | 5 | — | 11 | 5 | ||||
| 1989–90 | 1.Lig | 27 | 5 | — | 27 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 41 | 10 | 2 | 1 | — | 43 | 11 | |||
| Bursaspor | 1990–91 | 1.Lig | 27 | 4 | — | 27 | 4 | |||
| 1991–92 | 1.Lig | 27 | 7 | 7 | 3 | — | 34 | 10 | ||
| Total | 54 | 11 | 7 | 3 | — | 61 | 14 | |||
| Galatasaray | 1992–93 | 1.Lig | 30 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 47 | 26 |
| 1993–94 | 1.Lig | 27 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 43 | 20 | |
| 1994–95 | 1.Lig | 33 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 48 | 25 | |
| Total | 90 | 54 | 22 | 10 | 23 | 7 | 135 | 71 | ||
| Torino | 1995–96 | Serie A | 5 | 1 | — | — | 5 | 1 | ||
| Galatasaray | 1995–96 | 1.Lig | 25 | 16 | 7 | 2 | — | 32 | 18 | |
| 1996–97 | 1.Lig | 32 | 38 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 39 | 46 | |
| 1997–98 | 1.Lig | 34 | 32 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 50 | 34 | |
| 1998–99 | 1.Lig | 33 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 27 | |
| 1999–2000 | 1.Lig | 32 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 54 | 25 | |
| Total | 156 | 119 | 33 | 15 | 35 | 20 | 224 | 152 | ||
| Inter Milan | 2000–01 | Serie A | 24 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 34 | 6 |
| Parma | 2001–02 | Serie A | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 3 |
| Blackburn Rovers | 2002–03 | Premier League | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 9 | 2 | |
| Galatasaray | 2003–04 | Süper Lig | 28 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 38 | 18 |
| 2004–05 | Süper Lig | 33 | 18 | 3 | 4 | — | 35 | 22 | ||
| 2005–06 | Süper Lig | 31 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 37 | 13 | |
| 2006–07 | Süper Lig | 26 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 34 | 5 | |
| 2007–08 | Süper Lig | 28 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 41 | 14 | |
| Total | 146 | 55 | 14 | 7 | 26 | 10 | 186 | 72 | ||
| Career total | 540 | 260 | 79 | 34 | 94 | 38 | 709 | 332 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Turkey | 1992 | 8 | 5 |
| 1993 | 3 | 1 | |
| 1994 | 5 | 3 | |
| 1995 | 7 | 4 | |
| 1996 | 12 | 3 | |
| 1997 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1998 | 4 | 1 | |
| 1999 | 7 | 3 | |
| 2000 | 9 | 3 | |
| 2001 | 10 | 6 | |
| 2002 | 10 | 2 | |
| 2003 | 9 | 4 | |
| 2004 | 8 | 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2006 | 5 | 4 | |
| 2007 | 5 | 1 | |
| Total | 112 | 51 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 8 April 1992 | Ankara, Turkey |  Denmark | 2–1 | Friendly | |
| 2 | 26 August 1992 | Trabzon, Turkey |  Bulgaria | 3–2 | Friendly | |
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| 4 | 28 October 1992 | Ankara, Turkey |  San Marino | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1994 World Cup qualification |
| 5 | 3–1 | |||||
| 6 | 27 October 1993 | Istanbul, Turkey |  Poland | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1994 World Cup qualification |
| 7 | 7 September 1994 | Budapest, Hungary |  Hungary | 1–2 | 2–2 | Euro 1996 qualifying |
| 8 | 12 October 1994 | Istanbul, Turkey |  Iceland | 3–0 | 5–0 | Euro 1996 qualifying |
| 9 | 4–0 | |||||
| 10 | 26 April 1995 | Bern, Switzerland |  Switzerland | 1–0 | 2–1 | Euro 1996 qualifying |
| 11 | 6 September 1995 | Istanbul, Turkey | Hungary | 1–0 | 2–0 | Euro 1996 qualifying |
| 12 | 2–0 | |||||
| 13 | 15 November 1995 | Stockholm, Sweden |  Sweden | 2–1 | 2–2 | Euro 1996 qualifying |
| 14 | 1 May 1996 | Samsun, Turkey |  Ukraine | 3–2 | Friendly | |
| 15 | 10 November 1996 | Istanbul, Turkey | San Marino | 4–0 | 7–0 | 1998 World Cup qualification |
| 16 | 6–0 | |||||
| 17 | 2 April 1997 | Bursa, Turkey |  Netherlands | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1998 World Cup qualification |
| 18 | 20 August 1997 | Istanbul, Turkey |  Wales | 1–0 | 6–4 | 1998 World Cup qualification |
| 19 | 3–3 | |||||
| 20 | 5–4 | |||||
| 21 | 6–4 | |||||
| 22 | 10 September 1997 | Serravalle, San Marino | San Marino | 3–0 | 5–0 | 1998 World Cup qualification |
| 23 | 10 October 1998 | Bursa, Turkey |  Germany | 1–0 | 1–0 | Euro 2000 qualifying |
| 24 | 27 March 1999 | Istanbul, Turkey |  Moldova | 1–0 | 2–0 | Euro 2000 qualifying |
| 25 | 5 June 1999 | Helsinki, Finland |  Finland | 2–2 | 4–2 | Euro 2000 qualifying |
| 26 | 4–2 | |||||
| 27 | 19 June 2000 | Brussels, Belgium |  Belgium | 1–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 2000 |
| 28 | 2–0 | |||||
| 29 | 11 October 2000 | Baku, Azerbaijan |  Azerbaijan | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2002 World Cup qualification |
| 30 | 24 March 2001 | Istanbul, Turkey |  Slovakia | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2002 World Cup qualification |
| 31 | 2 June 2001 | Istanbul, Turkey | Azerbaijan | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2002 World Cup qualification |
| 32 | 15 August 2001 | Oslo, Norway |  Norway | 1– | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 33 | 1 September 2001 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Slovakia | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2002 World Cup qualification |
| 34 | 5 September 2001 | Istanbul, Turkey | Sweden | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2002 World Cup qualification |
| 35 | 14 November 2001 | Istanbul, Turkey |  Austria | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2002 World Cup qualification |
| 36 | 17 April 2002 | Kerkrade, Netherlands |  Chile | –0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 37 | 29 June 2002 | Daegu, South Korea |  South Korea | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2002 FIFA World Cup |
| 38 | 11 June 2003 | Istanbul, Turkey |  North Macedonia | 3–2 | 3–2 | Euro 2004 qualifying |
| 39 | 6 September 2003 | Vaduz, Liechtenstein |  Liechtenstein | 3–0 | 3–0 | Euro 2004 qualifying |
| 40 | 9 September 2003 | Dublin, Republic of Ireland |  Ireland | 2–2 | Friendly | |
| 41 | 19 November 2003 | Istanbul, Turkey |  Latvia | 2–0 | 2–2 | Euro 2004 qualifying |
| 42 | 21 May 2004 | Sydney, Australia |  Australia | 3–1 | Friendly | |
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| 44 | 2 June 2004 | Seoul, South Korea | South Korea | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 45 | 5 June 2004 | Daegu, South Korea | South Korea | 1– | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 46 | 18 August 2004 | Denizli, Turkey |  Belarus | 1– | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 47 | 11 October 2006 | Frankfurt, Germany | Moldova | 1–0 | 5–0 | Euro 2008 qualifying |
| 48 | 2–0 | |||||
| 49 | 3–0 | |||||
| 50 | 5–0 | |||||
| 51 | 2 June 2007 | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1–0 | 2–3 | Euro 2008 qualifying |
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