After a semi-dissapointing season Besiktas Istanbul turns interest in transfers mainly to Europe-born turkish footballers. Besiktas Transfer News Rumours

Besiktas İstanbul, winners of Turkey Cup 2011, seems to avoid paying unreasonable transfer fees in the turkish transfer market race. This years’s transfer targets are mainly focused among the promising young turkish talents, who are playing in Bundesiga teams in Germany and Austria.

Besiktas Transfers 2011

1. Veli Kavlak

Veli Kavlak (born 3 November 1988 in Vienna) is an Austrian footballer of Turkish descent who had played for Austria’ record titleholder Rapid Wien for 7 seasons and also plays for Austia National Team. He is a allaround offensive Midfielder, who can play versatile positions. Besiktas paid Rapid Wien 750000 € transfer fee.

2. Tanju Kayhan

The 1989 born defender Tanju Kayhan is a teammate of Veli Kavlak in Rapid Wien. He uses both feet and can play on left and right back  positions. Paid transfer fee  is 750000 €.

3. Burak Kaplan

The German-born Kaplan began the 2010-11 season with Bayer leverkusen, later he found playing time in the 2. Bundesliga team Greuter Furth, where he had played on loan. Another versatile midfielder, Burak Kaplan’s transfer fee is 800000 €.

4. Mustafa Pektemek

One of the young talented forwards of his generation, Mustafa Pektemek has great finishing and positioning qualities. The 22 year old joined Besiktas from Genclerbirligi for a fee of 4 Mil. €, where he scored 5 goal in 10 matches. He suffered from severe injuries in his young career.

The domestic transfer market in Turkey is renown for exagerrated fees for overrated players.