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Ebrar Karakurt
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Karakurt in 2018
Personal information
Nickname The Black Wolf
Born (2000-01-17) 17 January 2000 (age 24)
Balıkesir, Turkey
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Spike 315 cm (124 in)
Block 304 cm (120 in)
Volleyball information
Position Opposite / Outside Hitter
Current club Russia Lokomotiv Kaliningrad
Career
Years Teams
2014–15
2016–20
2020–21
2021–2023
2023–2024
Turkey Bursa BŞB
Turkey VakıfBank
Turkey THY
Italy Igor Gorgonzola Novara
Russia Lokomotiv Kaliningrad
National team
2017 Turkey U18
2017– Turkey U23
2018– Turkey
Honours
Women’s Volleyball
Representing the  Turkey
FIVB Nations League
Gold 2023 Arlington Team
Silver 2018 Nanjing Team
Bronze 2021 Rimini Team
European Championships
Gold 2023 Italy/Germany/Belgium/Estonia Team
Bronze 2021 Serbia/Bulgaria/Croatia/Romania Team
Silver 2019 Turkey Team
Women's U23 World Championship
Gold 2017 Ljubljana Team
Last updated: 5 July 2018

Ebrar Karakurt (Turkish pronunciation: [ebɾɑɾ kɑˈɾɑkuɾt]; born 17 January 2000) is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall and plays as opposite. She plays for Lokomotiv Kaliningrad of Russia and Turkey women's national volleyball team.

Volleyball career

Club

Karakurt started her volleyball career at DSİ Spor in Balıkesir. After settling in Bursa, she continued to play in her school team at Bursa Bahçeşehir Anadolu High School, and at the same time in the Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyespor. She played for Bursa BB in the 2014–15 Turkish Women's Volleyball League. She has two club licenses, which allow her to play for Bursa BB and Vakıfbank. She was a member of the youth team at Vakıfbank before she was taken to the senior team.

She was part of the Vakıfbank team, which became champion of the 2017–18 CEV Women's Champions League. She played with the Vakifbank team until moving to the Turkish team Türk Hava Yolları in 2020.

National team

She was part of the Turkey U18 team, and played at the 2017 Girls' U18 Volleyball European Championship in the Netherlands, as well as at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship in Argentina. She was named one of the two Best outside spikers of the world tournament.

She participated at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship in Slovenia with the Turkey U23 team, which became the champion of the tournament.

After being admitted to the Turkey national team, she experienced many important achievements, the most current of which is the silver medal at the 2019 Women's European Championship organized in Ankara, Turkey. Before that, she played in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League with her team and reached to the silver medal.

Personal life

In August 2021 Karakurt shared a photo of herself and her girlfriend on her Instagram account. The Instagram post was published by the conservative newspaper Takvim, which called her sexual orientation and relationship "scandalous", which in turn led to her being subjected to homophobic slurs on social media. Turkish televangelist Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü criticized her by saying that he "wonder[ed] what kind of troubles she could gather on [Turks]". After the attacks Karakurt has received messages of support on social media. The Turkish National Volleyball Federation spokesperson Kurtaran Mumcu supported Karakurt and criticized the homophobic comments directed at her. Demet Akalın, Eda Erdem Dündar and Naz Aydemir were among the people that have shown support to Karakurt.

In an interview with Turkish daily-published and online sports newspaper Fanatik, Karakurt admitted to be a diehard Beşiktaş fan and often posts pictures on her social media account wearing Beşiktaş jersey

Honours

Club

  • 2017–18 CEV Women's Champions League
    2019 FIVB Club World Championship – *Med 3.png Bronze medal, with VakıfBank

National team

  • 2017 U23 World Championship- Med 1.png Gold Medal
  • 2018 Nations League – Med 2.png Silver Medal
  • 2019 European Championship – Med 2.png Silver Medal
  • 2021 Nations League – Med 3.png Bronze Medal
  • 2021 European Championship Med 3.png Bronze Medal
  • 2023 Nations League – Med 1.png Gold Medal
  • 2023 European Championship – Med 1.png Gold Medal

Individual

  • 2017 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship – "Best outside spikers"
  • 2019 FIVB Nations League – "Best outside spikers"

See also

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