Aziz Yıldırım | |
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Chairman of Fenerbahçe Spor Külübü | |
Assumed office 14 February 1998 |
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Preceded by | Ali Haydar Şen |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ergani |
2 November 1952
Alma mater | Ankara Devlet Mühendislik Mimarlık Akademisi |
Profession | Engineer |
Aziz Yıldırım (born 2 November 1952 in Ergani, Diyarbakır Province) is currently the 52nd chairman of the Turkish multi sport club Fenerbahçe. He is currently serving his fifth two-year term. He has a degree in civil engineering.
Yıldırım was born in Ergani. He has 3 daughters, two of whom are from his first marriage.
On 2 July 2012, a Turkish "Special Authority Court" sentenced Yıldırım to three years and nine months for match-fixing and two years and six months for forming an illegal organisation. The sentence was later approved by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals. He was detained for one year in Metris Prison together with several other sportspeople involved in the scandal. However, on 6 March 2014 special authority courts were abolished in Turkey. On 23 July 2014, his earlier retrial demand was accepted, meaning that he and all the people involved will have a retrial about this case.The first trial of the retrial process was made on 24 April 2015. On 9 October 2015, the courts acquitted Aziz Yıldırım and all the people who were charged at the beginning of the investigation, pending the Supreme Court's approval. Fenerbahce declared that after the Supreme Court's approval, they would take every action to be compensated from all of the damages that has been done to the club by this investigation and previous court rulings.