Salih Yildiz (born 23 November 1978) is a Dutch former footballer who is last known to have played as a defender for Kırşehirspor.
In 1999, Yildiz signed for Denizlispor in the Turkish top flight after playing for the youth academy of Ajax, the Netherlands' most successful club.
However, he claimed that "The people at the club looked at me and said 'there you have another fake Turk there'.
Only then did I notice that there was a huge mentality difference between me and the Turks.
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