{"id":81824,"date":"2019-05-09T13:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81824"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:08:18","slug":"candidate-for-the-besiktas-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/candidate-for-the-besiktas-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"A Noteworthy Candidate for the Be\u015fikta\u015f Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Be\u015fikta\u015f presidential candidate with a Che Guevara tattoo.<\/h2>\n<p>H\u00fcrser Tekinoktay, who made strong accusations against then-Be\u015fikta\u015f president Fikret Orman, attracted considerable attention on social media as \u201cthe Be\u015fikta\u015f presidential candidate with a Che Guevara tattoo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Be\u015fikta\u015f elective general assembly scheduled for 12 May 2019, Tekinoktay argued that Fikret Orman should not run for another term. Speaking on TRT Spor, he said a <a title=\"Be\u015fikta\u015f president\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/che-tattooed-president-to-besiktas-who-is-hurser-tekinoktay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Be\u015fikta\u015f president<\/a> should not issue invoices to his own companies and must be someone capable of connecting with the public.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that the club\u2019s membership had fallen from 30,000 to 15,000, that members had been removed for failing to pay a single month\u2019s dues, and that certain irregular memberships had been registered.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the coaching position, Tekinoktay said he had met and reached an understanding with <a title=\"John Toshack Kimdir?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/john-toshack-kimdir.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Toshack<\/a> on several matters, although not specifically for the head-coach role, adding that he had another candidate in mind.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hurser Tekinoktay Hansi Flick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/hurser-tekinoktay-hansi-flick-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurser Tekinoktay<\/a>, known for the Che Guevara tattoo on his left shoulder, began his coaching career at Be\u015fikta\u015f\u2019s youth academy in 1995. He worked with several youth teams and played a role in the development of Nihat Kahveci. He speaks Italian and English and studied Lazio\u2019s training methods in Rome during the 1993\u201394 season.<\/p>\n<p>The report also describes him as an admirer of both Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk and <a title=\"Ernesto Che Guevara\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/tr\/ernesto-che-guevara-88-yasinda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Che Guevara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MdB4rnedMD\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/evren-tekinoktay-new-poster-15813\/\">Evren Tekinoktay &#8216;s new poster met art lovers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cEvren Tekinoktay \u2018s new poster met art lovers\u201d \u2014 NationalTurk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/evren-tekinoktay-new-poster-15813\/embed\/#?secret=pkuCT2Alyq#?secret=MdB4rnedMD\" data-secret=\"MdB4rnedMD\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurser Tekinoktay, known for the Che Guevara tattoo on his left shoulder, began his coaching career at Be\u015fikta\u015f\u2019s youth academy in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":81825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[1700,22021,6321,29370,5437,14177,12783,79924],"class_list":["post-81824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-besiktas","tag-besiktas-presidency","tag-che-guevara","tag-fikret-orman","tag-hurser-tekinoktay","tag-lazio","tag-nihat-kahveci","tag-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81824","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=81824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81827,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81824\/revisions\/81827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}