In 1999, Emre Can participated at the chess championship held in Antalya, Turkey becoming second in his age group.

In 2000, he took part at the World Youth Chess Championship held in Oropesa del Mar, Spain.

[3] At the age of 16, he won the first title in his age category among 102 players from 19 countries at the 13th Youth Chess Olympiad held in Novi Sad, Serbia on July 1–9.

In 2011, he became the Turkish chess champion,[5] while studying as a student of Information technology at Kadir Has University in Istanbul.

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