Mustafa Kurtuldum

Mustafa Kurtuldum — Biography

Mustafa Kurtuldum is a 1.97 m shooting guard who came up through the Anadolu Efes academy. He stood out in the national youth teams, above all with the silver medal at the 2019 FIBA Under-18 European Championship, and now plays for Mersin MSK.

He began basketball in 2008 at the Efes İlk Adım sports schools and then won the Efes trials. In 2017-18, the first season of the Basketbol Gençler Ligi, he became champion with Efes and recorded a triple-double in the league. In 2018-19 he became the 61st player to move from the academy to the first team, debuted in the Basketbol Süper Ligi against Türk Telekom on 11 November 2018 and played four games that season. In 2020 he was loaned to Merkezefendi Denizli, winning the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi title and helping the team reach the BSL. His next stops were Büyükçekmece Basketbol in 2021-22, Tofaş from 2022 and Aliağa Petkimspor from June 2024; after leaving Petkimspor he became Mersin MSK's first signing in June 2026.

With the under-16 side he won the TBF International Tournament in 2016 and was named its most valuable player, and the same year took bronze at the FIBA Under-16 European Championship. He finished fifth at the 2018 FIBA Under-17 World Cup; in the 2019 European final, a 57-53 loss to Spain, he scored 19 points with three rebounds as his team's top scorer.