What Turkish city between the Karakum Desert and the Kopec Dag mountain range also boasts a famous Turkish basketball player?
Ashgabat Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat , ; Russian: Ашхаба́д , "Ashkhabad"; ] ) — was named as Poltoratsk (Russian: Полтора́цк ; ] ) between 1919 and 1927, is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan in Central Asia, situated between the Karakum Desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range.
Nikola Kalinić (basketball) Nikola Kalinić (Serbian Cyrillic: , born 8 November 1991) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketball Super League and the EuroLeague. He also represents the Serbian national basketball team internationally. He is a 2.02 m tall small forward.