Nationality Turkish Succeeded by Faruk Suren | Role Businessman Name Alp Yalman Preceded by Ali Tanriyar | |
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Awards Milliyet Sports Namik Sevik Special Award, Milliyet Sports Award for Executive of the Year Similar People Duygun Yarsuvat, Faruk Suren, Adnan Polat, Abdurrahim Albayrak, Adnan Ozturk | ||
Alp yalman a spor r portaj 20 10 2014
Alp Yalman (born 1 January 1940) is a Turkish businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.
Yalman was born in Istanbul. After graduating from Robert College in Turkey, he studied Social and Political Science in the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is fluent in English, French and German as well as his native Turkish.
In 1973, he was brought onto the board of Galatasaray. He was elected as the president in 1990, a position he held for six years. In 2002, he returned and served few more years to Galatasaray under the presidency of Özhan Canaydın.
Galatasaray S.K. won two league titles, two national cups, and two national super cups, while Alp Yalman was the president.
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