Saffet Sancaklı

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Saffet Sancaklı
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
12 June 2011
ConstituencyKocaeli (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015, 2018, 2023)
Personal details
Born (1966-02-27) 27 February 1966 (age 58)
SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyNationalist Movement Party
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]

Association football career
Position(s)
Centre forward[1]
Youth career
1983–1985 Kültürspor
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1987
Vefa SK
1987–1991 Beşiktaş 25 (4)
1988–1989Eskişehirspor (loan) 30 (11)
1989–1990Konyaspor (loan) 24 (10)
1990–1991
Sarıyer G.K.
(loan)
10 (0)
1991–1994 Kocaelispor 88 (63)
1994–1995 Galatasaray 43 (30)
1996 Kocaelispor 19 (14)
1996–1998
Fenerbahçe
58 (21)
1998–1999 Konyaspor 16 (8)
International career
1988 Turkey U21 1 (0)
1992–1996 Turkey 23 (6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Saffet Sancaklı (Serbian Cyrillic: Сафет Санџакли, romanizedSafet Sandžakli; born 27 February 1966) is a Turkish former international footballer and current politician. He is a deputy of Nationalist Movement Party, representing city of Kocaeli.

Club career

Sancaklı scored 130 goals in

Vefa SK (1985–1987), Eskişehirspor (1988–1989, on loan), Sarıyer (1990–1991), Kocaelispor (1991–1994 and 1995–1996) and Konyaspor
(1989–1990, on loan and 1998–1999).

International career

Sancaklı played for

1996 UEFA European Championship
.

Post-football career

After retiring football, he went into politics from Nationalist Movement Party. He ran for deputyship from

İstanbul in Turkish general elections in 2011 and ran for mayor of Kocaeli metropolitan municipality in Turkish local elections in 2014, but was successful in neither. He was finally elected as deputy from Kocaeli in the Turkish general elections of June 2015, and reelected in the November 2015 Turkish general election
.

References

  1. ^ a b "Saffet Sancaklı". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 25 April 2021.

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