# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hidayet-turkoglu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:31:31.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hidayet-turkoglu"
name: "Hidayet Türkoğlu"
slug: "hidayet-turkoglu"
description: "Hidayet \"Hedo\" Türkoğlu is a Turkish basketball executive and former professional player. A 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) forward, Türkoğlu played for six teams in his 15-season career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won the NBA's Most Improved Player for the 2007–08 NBA season and played in the NBA Finals for the Magic in 2009. He also played for Turkey's national team in international competition. Türkoğlu has served as president of the Turkish Basketball Federation since October 2016."
tagline: "Turkish basketball player (born 1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hidayet_T%C3%BCrko%C4%9Flu_20250218_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1979-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             25.93847758081335
  historical:           22.34216
  currentAttention:     5.24
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  230
  category: 249
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    title: "ヒド・ターコルー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хедо Туркоглу"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill