Çekdar Orhan


Çekdar Orhan is a Turkish football player of Kurdish descent who plays as a forward for TFF First League club Amed.

Career

Born in Turkey and raised in Germany, Orhan is a youth product of the German clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach, Wuppertaler SV, 1. FC Mönchengladbach and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. He returned to Turkey to join the academy of Galatasaray in 2018. He began his senior career with Akhisarspor in the TFF First League in 2019, before transferring to Giresunspor on 15 August 2021. He made his professional debut with Giresunspor in a 2-1 Süper Lig loss to Antalyaspor on 1 November 2021.

Personal life

Orhan is the nephew of the Kurdish actors Yılmaz Erdoğan and Ersin Korkut.