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Ahmet Burak Solakel

Turkish association football player (born 1982)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ401786 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ahmet Burak Solakel (born 1 March 1982) is a Turkish former footballer who played as a defender.

Career

Elazığspor

On the final day of the January transfer market 2019, Solakel was one of 22 players, who within two hours, signed up to play for the Turkish club Elazığspor. The club had been placed under a transfer embargo but successfully managed to negotiate it with the Turkish FA, leading to them going on a mad spree of signing and registering a load of players despite not even having a permanent manager in place. In just two hours, they managed to snap up a record 22 players - 12 coming in on permanent contracts and a further 10 joining on loan deals until the end of the season.

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The public source identifies “Ahmet Burak Solakel” as turkish association football player (born 1982). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ahmet, Burak and Solakel.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-03-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ahmet, Burak and Solakel providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q401786. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ahmet Burak Solakel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.