Burned to Karşıyaka Ateş
Karşıyaka’s basketball legend and former president Ateş Özerk said to this mortal world, “Farewell”. Not only Karşıyakalılar, but those who understand a little bit of sports and basketball were damned to the emigration of Ateş Özerk. Between 1983-1989 Karşıyaka Basketball Branch President Ateş, the green-red team survived the age, 1986-1987 season, both the displacement league championship and the Presidential Cup won. The most important aspect of these achievements was in the basketball philosophy of Ateş Özerk. While all teams in Türkiye were trying to make a degree on the back of foreign players, Ateş autonomously made a revolution by putting all Karsiyakalı youth next to Melvyn Davis and John Wiley. Tuğrul Taşkıngenç, Birtan Saka, Cihangir Basaran, Suat Olca, Murat Aşkın, Nihat Mala, Ziya Uyanık, Ediz Baksı, Kaan Dağdelen, Necmi Mısırlıoğlu, Ateş Özerk granted luck.
While Ateş ÖZERK’s close to knowing all the players in the world basketball market, including the NBA, contributing to Karşıyaka, other clubs asked for help with foreign players. In summary, İzmir and Karşıyaka became the center of the world basketball market. The administrations that came after Ateş Autonomous retirement relieved the interest of the outside world by reducing the interest of his “future, future, raising players from infrastructure” philosophy. The result is obvious … Always the peaks, European cups, Türkiye’s pride Karşıyaka was hard to get rid of the cluster.
Karşıyakalılar held a farewell ceremony worthy of Ateş Özerk. Karşıyaka Mayor Yıldız Ünsal also attended the ceremony of the green-red community elite athletes, the champion team coach Nadir Vekiloglu, former famous basketballmen Efe Aydan and Erman Kunter attended. May the spirit of Shad, Karsiyakalılar fire buried the autonomous hearts.
