Mizgin Ay wins gold in girls’ 100-meter final at World U18 Championships in Nairobi Turkish national sprinter on Thursday Mizgin Ay, 17, won gold in the girls’ 100-meter final at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World U18 Championships in Nairobi. Ay crossed the finish line with a time of 11.62 seconds. “I was […]

Cedi Osman expresses thrill at playing alongside NBA stars LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love Turkish basketball forward Cedi Osman announced on Wednesday that he is leaving Anadolu Efes to join the roster of NBA heavyweights the Cleveland Cavaliers. Speaking to Turkish sports channel NTVSpor, Macedonian-born Osman, 22, said that he was thrilled to be […]

Ramil Guliyev earns ‘third white athlete who scored below 10 seconds’ title Sprinter Ramil Guliyev turned in an historic performance with a time of 09.97 seconds in men’s 100-meter final at the Athletics Turkcell Super League final in Bursa, the Turkish Athletics Federation said on Thursday. The fast time earned Guliyev the title of “the […]

Star reportedly inks 2-year contract Besiktas signed former Real Madrid defender, Pepe, the club announced late Tuesday. “The transfer meeting of Kepler Laveran Lima Ferreira started,” Besiktas announced on its website. On its official Twitter account, the team posted a photograph of Pepe wearing its jersey. Another image showed Pepe signing a contract with the […]

Men’s national team defeats Britain 76-69 at Friday’s finals in European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Spain The men’s wheelchair basketball team of Turkey ranked first at the European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in the Spanish coastal city of Tenerife on Friday, according to official IWBF Europe website. Turkey has won every quarter to beat the Britain, […]

Recent terror attacks which have blighted the U.K. should not be linked to religion, one of the country’s top footballing stars has said. In an interview with Esquire magazine Frenchman Paul Pogba, who transferred to one of the biggest teams in the English Premiere League last season from Italian giants Juventus, described the spate of […]

Nur Tatar Azkari takes gold medal in women’s under-67 kg category Turkey’s Nur Tatar Azkari has won a gold medal in the 2017 World Taekwondo Championship on Tuesday in South Korea. Bronze medalist in the 2016 Rio Olympics, Azkari, defeated her U.S. opponent Paige McPherson in the women’s under-67 kg final in the city of […]

Griekse sportmedia hebben opvallend gereageerd op de Euroleague-overwinning van Fenerbahçe op Olympiakos. De nadruk werd gelegd op de woorden ‘niet huilen’ aan Grieken nadat de Turkse basketbalclub zondag de Europese titel veroverde. “Ik ga niet huilen”, kopte de Griekse krant Sport Day. “Niet huilen Olympiakos, wees trots op jezelf”, schreef de Griekse sportsite Sentragoal.gr. “Het […]

De Turkse hoofdstad Ankara krijgt binnen zeer korte tijd een nieuw voetbalstadion. De bouw van de nieuwe arena van Ankara is al voor twintig procent voltooid en moet eind dit jaar af zijn. Dat meldt de gemeente van de miljoenenstad.  Het stadion komt in de wijk Eryaman. De architect van de arena is Bünyamin Derman, […]

Het Turkse volleybalteam VakifBank is opnieuw wereldkampioen geworden tijdens het FIVB Wereldkampioenschap damesvolleybal voor clubs. Zij waren in de finale in de Japanse stad Kobe te sterk voor de Braziliaanse Rexona-Sesc: 3-0. De sets eindigde voor de partij uit Turkije met 25-19 en tweemaal met 25-21. Het is de tweede keer dat de volleybalvrouwen de wereldtitel bemachtigen. […]