Lütfi Arıboğan

Lütfi Arıboğan — Biography

Lutfi Arıboğan (born 30 September 1961) is a Turkish sports administrator and former basketball player. Most sources give his birthplace as Adana, though some say Ankara; the majority favours Adana. He is 1.98 m tall and played as a forward.

He played for Çukobirlik, Ankara DSİ, Efes Pilsen, Galatasaray and Ülkerspor across a span given as 1971-1996, junior years included; he won 243 caps for Turkish national teams and captained Galatasaray for six seasons. He then spent eight years as Ülkerspor's general manager, became general secretary of the Turkish Football Federation in 2005, and held federation posts including deputy president until January 2012. In June 2012 he became chief executive of Galatasaray Sportif A.Ş., serving until October 2014.

Records give his spouse as Deniz Ülke Kaynak; other sources refer in the past tense to his marriage to academic Deniz Ülke Arıboğan.