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Bora Paçun

Turkish basketball player (born 1987)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4944256
Source-derived summary

Bora Hun Paçun (born May 27, 1987) is a Turkish former professional basketball player who played as a center. He is 6 ft 10.75 in (2.10 m) tall.

Pro career

He started his pro-career with Turborg Pilsener in Turkish Basketball League 2005–06 season and played with them for a year till his transfer to Efes Pilsen. He played with Efes Pilsen between 2006 and 2009 then also played with Darüşşafaka for 2009–10 season, with Banvit for 2010–11 season and with Antalya BB for 2011–12 season. In the summer of 2012, he signed a contract with Pınar Karşıyaka.

On December 28, 2018, he has signed with Sakarya BB of the Turkish Basketball Super League.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bora Paçun” as turkish basketball player (born 1987). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bora, Paçun and Turkish.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2005, 2006, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-05-27. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bora, Paçun and Turkish providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4944256. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2005, 2006 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Bora Paçun” 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.