{"id":11123,"date":"2022-01-11T21:46:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=179483"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:18:45","slug":"ahmet-yilmaz-calik-dead-at-27-konyaspor-star-killed-in-horror-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/ahmet-yilmaz-calik-dead-at-27-konyaspor-star-killed-in-horror-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmet Yilmaz Calik dead at 27, Konyaspor\u2019s star killed in horror car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defender Ahmet Yilmaz Calik was on the\u00a0 express highway when the defender lost the control and crashed at around 9 am on Tuesday morning. He was himself driving his car when this tragic incident happened. It was reported that the car flipped as it came off the carriageway and landed in a gully.<br \/>\nEmergency services rushed to the accident but Ahmet was declared dead at the site by the medical professionals in heartbreaking circumstances.<br \/>\nAhmet was alone in the car at the time of the accident and is due to be buried in Elmadag Cemetery after the funeral on Tuesday, reported FotoMac in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>According to Spor Arena, he was commuting to Ankara on his day off to finalize wedding plans for February. The player earned 8 senior caps for Turkey between 2015 to 2017 after moving through the ranks in the youth teams. It was a tragic incident which happened on Monday. This incident has impacted hugely to his loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmet was representing Konyaspor<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>in club football until this tragic incident, joining the Super Lig in 2020 from Galatasaray.<\/p>\n<p>Konyaspor tweeted a message of support\u00a0<span class=\"rcolor1\" data-name=\"for their|for his or her\">for his <\/span>popular centre-back. \u201cWe are deeply saddened by the loss of our <span class=\"rcolor2\" data-name=\"football player|footballer|athlete|jock|player|participant\">footballer\u00a0<\/span>Ahmet Calik, who has won the love of our fans and our city since\u00a0<span class=\"rcolor3\" data-name=\"the first|the primary\">the primary\u00a0<\/span>day he came to our Konyaspor.\u201d Konyaspor wrote via Twitter. Ex-Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski has played with Calik at Galatasaray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TURKISH international footballer Ahmet Yilmaz Calik has died in a horror car crash aged 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":33599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,1495,2938,2216],"class_list":["post-11123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-car-crash","tag-defender","tag-super-lig"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}