Background and career
Cenk Tosun (Turkish: [dʒæɲc ˈtosun]; born 7 June 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for TFF First League club Fatih Karagümrük.
After making one Bundesliga appearance for Eintracht Frankfurt, Tosun transferred to Gaziantepspor in January 2011, where he won the Spor Toto Cup in 2012. In 2014, he was signed by Beşiktaş and won two Süper Lig titles before transferring to Everton in January 2018 for a reported £27 million transfer fee. After loans to fellow Premier League team Crystal Palace and back to Beşiktaş, he signed for the latter at the end of his contract in 2022.
Tosun was born in Germany and played for the representative teams of the German Football Association from under-16 to under-21 level. He then changed his allegiance to the Turkish Football Federation, for whom he made his senior international debut in 2013, and played at UEFA Euro 2016 and Euro 2024.
