Atay Aktuğ, is the former president

President

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 of the Turkish

Turkey

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 club Trabzonspor

Trabzonspor

Trabzonspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, Trabzonspor won six championships in Turkish Super League. The Club won their first Championship title in 1975 which is also the Club's initiation year...

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Atay was a player for Trabzonspor in the late sixties and early seventies. He was voted in as president after his predecessor Özkan Sümer

Özkan Sümer

Özkan Sümer is a Turkish former footballer and coach. He served as defender in Trabzonspor, and later coached the same club, Galatasaray SK and the Turkey national football team. He acted also as president of Trabzonspor....

 suddenly resigned in August 2003. He was re-elected in December 2004.

One of the main changes he has brought about is to list Trabzonspor on the Istanbul Stock Exchange

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, in the hope of raising funds for the club. Under his stewardship Trabzonspor has embarked on a series of tasks to raise marketing

Marketing

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 income through sponsorship and to create a large community of members throughout Turkey and Europe

Europe

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Aktuğ was the mayor of Trabzon

Trabzon

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast...

between 1989-1994.