Following last Monday’s earthquake in Turkey, Turkish basketball player Nilay Aydogan was discovered dead among the rubble of collapsed buildings.
According to Basket News, the country’s sport federation made the announcement on Monday.
Aydogan was a 30-year-old woman who played for Turkish Super League club Cankaya University until her death.
He had reportedly gone to visit her grandmother in Malayta when the devastating earthquake struck, collapsing the apartment block.
The basketball player and her grandmother were found dead among the rubble, with the search continuing in hundreds of Turkish and northern Syrian settlements to try and find people still alive.
In a statement, the Turkish Basketball Federation said that they had learned of the news with “deep sadness.”
“We have learned with deep sadness that Nilay Aydogan, the national player of Cankaya University, one of the ING Women’s Basketball Super League teams, lost her life in the earthquake disaster,” they said.
“May God have mercy on the deceased, we offer our condolences to her family, relatives and basketball community.”
Aydogan played for a number of teams across her career in Turkey, including Osmaniye, Yalova and Mersin in the Turkish second division.