Turkey national basketball team
The Turkish national basketball team represents Turkey in international matches and friendlies. Your biggest triumphs the team as they at the European Championships on home soil in 2001 Vice European Champion and at the World Cup in 2010 also vice world champion in their own country. Basketball is the second most popular after football team sport in Turkey.
The founder and first coach of the Turkish national basketball team was the Armenian -born Rupen Semerciyan. For the 2010 World Basketball Championship Turkey qualified automatically as hosts.