HURRIYET
This 14th giant is Leyla Çaliskan, a famous talent scout for Turkish basketball, and a male-to-female transsexual.
Çaliskan worked largely behind the scenes until daily Hürriyet columnist Yilmaz Özdil wrote about her after the final game Sept. 12 between Turkey and the United States, which the U.S. squad won 81-64.
“You do not know Leyla; it is normal, because she is not keen on fame. She has a modest, peaceful life… Although you would not want it, Leyla, I wanted Turkey to know who they should be proud of,” Özdil wrote, dubbing Çaliskan the country’s “14th Giant Man.”
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