{"id":4653,"date":"2010-03-23T05:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T03:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:48:04","slug":"ozhan-canaydin-death-4484653","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ozhan-canaydin-death-4484653\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozhan Canaydin death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Galatasaray\u2019s previous chairman, Ozhan Canaydin died last night at the Bursa Acibadem Hospital.<\/h1>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4654\" title=\"Ozhan Canaydin death-Nationalturk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ozhan-canaydin-nationalturk.jpg\" alt=\"Ozhan Canaydin death-Nationalturk\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ozhan-canaydin-nationalturk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ozhan-canaydin-nationalturk-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ozhan-canaydin-nationalturk-280x188.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Galatasaray\u2019s previous chairman, \u00d6zhan Canayd\u0131n died at 23.34\u00a0 according to officials at the Bursa Acibadem Hospital Medical Center, where the former president had slipped into a deep coma yesterday, he had been suffering from pancreas cancer for the past 2.5 years.<\/h2>\n<h1>Ozhan Canaydin biography<\/h1>\n<p>Ozhan Canaydin (January 23, 1943 \u2013 March 22, 2010) was a businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1943 in Bursa, Canayd\u0131n began to play professional basketball in 1958.<\/p>\n<p>In 1957, he became the youngest member of the Galatasaray organization with the registration number 155.<\/p>\n<p>Playing with Turkey&#8217;s national youth team that won the European Youth Championship in 1962, Ozhan Canaydin was also among the eight players of the Galatasaray basketball team that won the Turkish Championship.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of Galatasaray cadet, junior and senior basketball teams and participated in the teams that became Turkish champions. He retired from basketball in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Ozhan Canaydin graduated from the prestigious Galatasaray College in 1963 and married Asuman Canaydin in 1965. He has two children and four grandchildren. His son, Murat Canaydin also graduated from Galatasaray College and runs the family business now.<\/p>\n<p>In 1963, Ozhan Canaydin started his business career in the textile sector, in which his father had a company.<\/p>\n<p>Ozhan Canaydin assigned his business to professional managers after being elected as President of Galatasaray in 2002. Canaydin has also served for Galatasaray under the presidencies of Ali Tanr\u0131yar, Alp Yalman and legendary President Faruk S\u00fcren.<\/p>\n<p>Ozhan Canaydin was re-elected chairman of Galatasaray on March 25, 2006. Due to health issues, he resigned from his position in 2008.<br \/>\nOzhan Canaydin died on 22 March 2010 in Bursa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NationalTurk \/ Bursa<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President \u00d6zhan Canayd\u0131n died <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,135,118,103,127,174,1633],"tags":[5797,5792,5794,5796,5795,2527,5789,5787,5793,5788,5772,5791,5790],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-football","category-hot","category-only-on-nationalturk","category-sport","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-sport","tag-bursa","tag-bursa-acibadem-hospital-medical-center","tag-galatasaray-president","tag-galatasaray-president-dead","tag-galatasaray-president-death","tag-nationalturk","tag-ozhan-canaydin-basketball","tag-ozhan-canaydin-biography","tag-ozhan-canaydin-death","tag-ozhan-canaydin-galatasaray","tag-ozhan-canaydin","tag-turkish-businessman-ozhan-canaydin","tag-turkish-sports-club-galatasaray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}