Beşiktaş are targeting Ahmetcan Kaplan as part of their plan to sign one domestic and one foreign centre-back. The club's transfer operations reportedly have the approval of head coach Italiano. Beşiktaş will attempt to sign the 23-year-old Turkish defender. Kaplan's registration is with Ajax, and he spent the previous season on loan at Nijmegen, where he made 25 Eredivisie appearances and scored one goal. Beşiktaş had a significant interest in the player, who is a product of the Trabzonspor youth academy. Kaplan has not yet been capped by Türkiye. He is under contract with Ajax until June 2027 and has a Transfermarkt market value of €7.00m. His former club, Trabzonspor, has also been associated with a potential transfer for the player. Ajax signed Kaplan from Trabzonspor in August 2022 for a fee reported to be €9.5 million. In mid-2025, reports indicated that Ajax's asking price for the player was between six and seven million euros.