A Brief Summary

Atatürk Kupası was designed to bring Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası and Başbakanlık Kupası winners to face each other.
The big Marmara earthquake cancelled the cup in 1999.
It was held with a new status in 2000, since both Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası and Başbakanlık Kupası were discontinued. The new status was similar to the status of Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası - the league champion vs the cup winners. Since Galatasaray made a double that year, they played the second placed club at the league.
The cup couldn't be held in 2001 and 2002 because of the heavy traffic at UEFA cup games for the clubs to participate.
Atatürk Cup was discontinued in 2002-2003 season.

Year 2 - 2000 - Beşiktaş

01/11/2000 ¹ 19:00 19 Mayıs Stadyumu, Ankara - Metin Tokat, Timur Tekinarslan, Mehmet Kaya
Galatasaray 1-2 Beşiktaş
0-1 İbrahim Şahin 38, 0-2 Pascal Nouma 77, 1-2 Serkan Aykut 90
Galatasaray - 1999-2000 Türkiye 1.Ligi & 1999-2000 Türkiye Kupası
Kerem İnan, Carlos Alberto de Oliveira "Capone", Gheorghe Popescu, Emre Aşık, Okan Buruk, Suat Kaya, Bülent Akın (Ahmet Yıldırım 28), Faruk Atalay, Ergün Penbe (Vedat İnceefe 46), Márcio Mandinga dos Santos "Márcio Mixirica" (Hasan Şaş 46), Serkan Aykut
Coach: Mircea Lucescu (ROM) (replaced Fatih Terim for the new season)
Vedat İnceefe 35, Hasan Şaş 67
Beşiktaş - second at 1999-2000 Türkiye 1.Ligi
Fevzi Tuncay, Rahim Zafer, Dmitry Khlestov, Erman Güraçar (İbrahim Üzülmez 80), Murat Alaçayır, İlhan Şahin, Ayhan Akman (Salih Akkaya 87), Jamal Sellami, Bayram Bektaş, Tunç Kip, Pascal Oliver Nouma
Coach: Nevio Scala (ITA) (replaced Peter Briegel (GER) for the new season)
Rahim Zafer 55, Pascal Nouma 74

¹ was held after the new season began

Year 1 - 1998 - Fenerbahçe

10/11/1998 ¹ 20:00 19 Mayıs Stadyumu, Ankara - Oğuz Sarvan, Turgay Güdü, Cengiz Akyüz
Beşiktaş 0-2 Fenerbahçe
0-1 Tayfun Korkut 38, 0-2 John Lesiba Mosheou 56
Beşiktaş - 1998 Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası
Ekrem Köse, Savaş Kaya, Erkan Avseren, Rahim Zafer, Alpay Özalan, Mutlu Topçu, Nihat Kahveci, Yasin Sülün, Hikmet Çapanoğlu, Serdar Topraktepe (Aydın Tuna 65), Ertuğrul Sağlam
Coach: John Benjamin Toschack (WAL)
Alpay Özalan 80
Fenerbahçe - 1998 Başbakanlık Kupası
Murat Şahin, Mustafa Doğan, Uche Okechukwu, Jes Högh, Erol Bulut, Tayfun Korkut, John Lesiba Moshoeu, Murat Yakın (Kemalettin Şentürk 75), Metin Diyadin, Dimas Manuel Marques Teixeria "Dimas" (İlker Yağcıoğlu 30), Elvir Boljić "Elvir Boliç" (Faruk Yiğit 86)
Coach: Joachim Löw (GER) (replaced Başbakanlık Kupası winner interim coach Cemşir Muratoğlu, who replaced Otto Barić (CRO) one week before the end of regular season)

¹ was held after the next season began

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