Education
He was educated at Robert College in Istanbul, where he finished high school section and then the college"s School of Business Administration and Economics in 1965.
He was educated at Robert College in Istanbul, where he finished high school section and then the college"s School of Business Administration and Economics in 1965.
He is fluent in English and French as well as his native Turkish. He first got involved in football in 1977 when he was brought onto the board of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). He was elected as the president in 1989, a position he held for eight years until he passed the torch to Haluk Ulusoy.
After this he concentrated on his position in Union of European Football Associations, where he has served since 1990.
Erzik is married and has a son.
He is a member of the Fédération internationale de football association Executive Committee. He worked in a diverse range of careers for a number of years in fields like banking for the Sınai Yatırım ve Kredi Bank, as a project manager for Food and Agriculture Organization/United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund and is still involved as an executive board member of the Cankurtaran Holding Incorporated in Turkey. He has been a Union of European Football Associations vice president since 1994, member of the Fédération internationale de football association Executive Committee since 1996, and holds a position as the honorary president of the TFF.