İsmail Demiriz


İsmail Demiriz is a Turkish former football player, who played as a right-back, and manager.
In 2019, Demiriz was convicted in Turkey and sentenced to prison for over a half-dozen years for his affiliations with Hizmet, a self-described transnational association based on moral principles and outlawed in Turkey as allegedly an "armed terrorist group."

Professional career

Demiriz spent his whole career in Turkey and is best known for his stint with Galatasaray, for whom he played 251 times and scored seven times. He helped Galatasaray win three Süper Lig titles, and ten other domestic titles. He was briefly a manager after retiring from football.

Other interests

In September 2016, Demiriz was charged with being part of a Gülenist terrorist organization and detained in Istanbul.

Honours

;Galatasaray