Ege Arar

Ege Arar — Biography

Ege Arar is a basketball player who plays centre and power forward at 2.06 metres. Raised in Galatasaray's youth system, he won the EuroCup with the club in 2015-16 and collected a string of medals with the junior national teams. He now plays for Trabzonspor, who extended his contract by a year in the summer of 2026.

His path began in 2010, when he was one of the few players picked from a Galatasaray try-out of 37 youngsters. He won gold at the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship and at the 2014 Under-18 Championship; at the latter, matched against Dragan Bender in the game against Croatia, he was man of the match with 14 points and 10 rebounds. In the inter-school championship, playing for Doğa College, he averaged 21 points and 13.8 rebounds, put up 24 points and 21 rebounds against Fenerbahçe, and lost the final to Evyap. He moved up to the senior team in 2014-15, first wearing number 34 and later 11, and in 2018 he was called up to the national team. He also took bronze at the 2015 Under-19 World Cup and at the Under-20 European championships in 2015 and 2016.

After Galatasaray he continued his professional journey with Petkim Spor (2020 and again in 2022), a return to Galatasaray (2021), Çağdaş Bodrumspor (2023), Manisa Büyükşehir Belediyespor (November 2023), Darüşşafaka (August 2024) and, from October 2024, Trabzonspor.