Melike Öztürk

Melike Öztürk — Biography

Melike Öztürk is a forward who rose from scoring heavily in the women's third league to the Women's First League and the Turkey national team. Born in Gelibolu, she won the league title with Beşiktaş in 2021 and has worn number 71 for Galatasaray since August 2025.

She took out her player licence with Denizli Pamukkale Üniversitesi Gençlikspor on 13 November 2015 and scored 24 goals in 12 Third League matches in 2015-16. The next season she joined İncirliova Belediyespor in Aydın and scored 67 goals in 26 games. In the second half of 2017-18 she moved to Horozkent in Denizli, scoring 16 goals in seven matches, then returned to İncirliova and added 13 goals in eight games. In August 2019 she joined Ataşehir Belediyespor in the Women's First League, scoring five goals in 15 matches of a season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. In 2021 she moved to Beşiktaş and won the title with the team, playing two matches in the UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds. After a spell at Fatih Vatan Spor she left the club in June 2025 and signed with Galatasaray on 1 August 2025.

Her international career began in the youth teams: she debuted for the Turkey girls' U-17 side against Portugal on 13 May 2016 and scored 13 goals in 25 matches, then scored two goals in 14 games for the U-19s. She was first named in the senior squad in December 2019, sat on the bench away to Slovenia, and made her debut against Kosovo on 23 October 2020.