Aziz Yıldırım

In May 2026, Yıldırım once again declared his candidacy for chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K, seeking to get reelected. On 7 June 2026, he was re-elected chairman of Fenerbahçe.

• Name — Aziz Yıldırım • Office — President of Fenerbahçe • Term Start — 10 June 2026 • Predecessor — Sadettin Saran • Term Start1 — 14 February 1998 • Term End1 — 5 June 2018 • Predecessor1 — Ali Haydar Şen • Successor1 — Ali Koç • Born — 2 November 1952 • Birthplace — Ergani, Diyarbakır, Turkey • Children — 3 • Alma Mater — Ankara State Academy of Engineering and Architecture • Occupation — Engineer, businessperson

Yıldırım was born in Ergani. He has 3 daughters, two of whom are from his first marriage.

On 2 July 2012, a Turkish "Special Authority Court" sentenced Yıldırım to three years and nine months for match-fixing and two years and six months for forming an illegal organisation. The sentence was later approved by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals. He was detained for one year in Metris Prison together with several other sportspeople involved in the scandal. However, on 6 March 2014 special authority courts were abolished in Turkey. On 23 July 2014, his earlier retrial demand was accepted. On 9 October 2015, the courts acquitted Aziz Yıldırım and all the people who were charged at the beginning of the investigation, pending the Supreme Court's approval. Fenerbahce declared that after the Supreme Court's approval, they would take every action to be compensated from all of the damages that has been done to the club by this investigation and previous court rulings.