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Petrol Ofisi S.K.

professional association football club based in Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ1636012 ↗
Source-derived summary

Petrol Ofisi was a sports club founded in Ankara in 1954. It received the name of Petrol Ofisi (POAS; Petroleum Agency) in 2000, after the privatization of POAS. Petrol Ofisi withdrew due to financial difficulties. In 2010 the registration was revoked and the club was closed by the Turkish Football Federation. They played in the first division in the 1994–1995 season. Osvaldo Nartallo was a player of Petrol Ofisi.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Petrol Ofisi S.K.” as professional association football club based in Turkey. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Petrol, Ofisi and professional.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 2000, 2010, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Petrol, Ofisi and professional providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Petrol Ofisi S.K.”, the useful work is to connect “professional association football club based in Turkey” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1636012. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954, 2000, 2010 and 1994.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Petrol Ofisi S.K. primary sources, Petrol Ofisi S.K. archive and Petrol research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Petrol Ofisi S.K.” 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.