Pelin Bilgiç

Pelin Bilgiç — Biography

Pelin Bilgiç is an experienced point guard and shooting guard in Turkish women's basketball. She has played for some of the country's leading teams, including Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Çukurova Basketbol and OGM Ormanspor, won the Turkish Women's Basketball Super League with Fenerbahçe in 2017-18, and played for the Turkey women's national team at European championships. At the end of 2024 she returned to ÇBK Mersin, the club of her home city.

She turned professional in 2011 with Botaş SK in Adana and stayed five seasons. In 2016 she moved to Fenerbahçe; in her first season the team reached the final of both the Super League and EuroLeague Women, and the next season it won the league and reached the EuroLeague Women quarter-finals. In 2018-19 she helped Çukurova Basketbol reach the league final and the Eurocup Women quarter-finals, then moved to OGM Ormanspor in 2019 and to Galatasaray in 2020, finishing second in the league with Galatasaray in 2020-21. She extended her contract there in 2021 and again in 2022. She has also worn the shirt of Beşiktaş.

On the national side she came through the youth categories: sixth at European championships in 2010 and 2012, and third at the Under-20 European Championship in 2012 and 2013. She was in the Rio 2016 Olympic candidate squad, finished fifth with the senior team at the 2017 European Championship and played at the 2019 and 2021 championships too.