Background
He has also German citizenship by his mother.
He has also German citizenship by his mother.
Atsür attended high school at Saint-Benoit French High School in Istanbul. After one year in the Turkish Second League, Atsür moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. to study business administration at North Carolina State on an athletic scholarship and he graduated in 2007.
He is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds and he plays at the point guard position. Atsür played college basketball in the United States with North Carolina State University from 2003-2007. He started playing basketball in the youth teams of the successful Turkish club Efes Pilsen South.K.
Atsür was a starting point guard for North Carolina State all four years.
He was named to the Collegeinsider.com Defensive All-America Team for his junior season.
Atsür signed his first professional contract with the Italian League team Benetton Treviso on June 30, 2007. After spending one season in Italy, he signed a contract with the Turkish League team Efes Pilsen.
Foreign the 2009-2010 season, Atsür signed a contract with Beşiktaş Cola Turka. After a successful season with Beşiktaş Cola Turka (27 games in TBL with 300 minimum, 131 pts, 483% FG, 408% 3P, 802% FT, 30 reb, 44 ast, 14 stl, 24 TO), Atsür signed with Fenerbahçe Ülker for two years.
On June 29, 2012, he signed a two-year contract with Galatasaray Medical Park.
On June 23, 2014 Atsür returned to his former team Beşiktaş, when he sigend a 2-year deal with an option for a third year. At the 2002 European Championship for Junior Men at Germany, Atsür averaged 22.3 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and he was selected to the All-Tournament First Team as the best shooting guard of the competition. At North Carolina State:
33rd player in North Carolina State University history to score over 1,000 points.
Scored 1181 points in his career.
2nd best three-point shooter in school history
4th best in minutes played in school history (3,838 minimum- 119 games- 32,3 mpg)
Averaged 9.9 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company over his career.
Atsür is also a member of the senior, and figured in Turkey"s squad that finished sixth in the 2006 International Basketball Federation World Championship held in Japan.