Manchester City have confirmed their inspirational captain İlkay Gündoğan has joined Barcelona on a free transfer. The midfielder has been given a two-year deal by the Spanish Champions, with the option to extend for another year. City said they had offered Gündoğan a new contract, but after seven...
Turkiye’s flagship carrier Turkish Airlines was named Europe’s Best Airline for the eighth consecutive year by Skytrax, the global ranking body for the air industry. Turkish Airlines received their prestigious prize at the Skytrax World Airline Awards – also known as the ‘Oscars of the Aviation Ind...
England and Turkiye scored maximum points from their two group qualifying games this month, allowing them to go into the summer break as leaders in their respective Eur0 2024 groups. England were in cruise control in both games, putting four past Malta on Friday, followed by seven against North Mac...
The four UK home nations, Turkiye and Azerbaijan are all in action this weekend and early next week for the next round of the Euro 2024 Group Qualifiers. Friday evening’s games will see England play Malta, Northern Ireland face Denmark, and Turkiye take on Latvia, all away from home. Wales, meanwhi...
Istanbul hosts the Champions League Final this weekend, with two giants of the modern game, Manchester City and Internazionale Milano, set to battle it out for Europe’s top club trophy. Man City come into the final as favourites, having won the English domestic double, the Premier League and the FA...
Merve Dizdar made history in Cannes at the weekend after she was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Turkish actress to win the award. She won the prize for her role as Nuray, a teacher in a remote village who has to deal with male harassment at her school, in Nuri Bi...
A professor originally from Istanbul has entered the history books as the first person of Turkish origin to become appointed president, or rector, of an American university. Professor Ayşegül Timur has been appointed the fifth president of Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) following a vote by th...
Istanbul-born economist, politician and former head of the United Nations Development Programme, Kemal Derviş has died at the age of 74. He had Parkinson’s Disease and was being treated in Washington D.C. at the time of his death on Monday. Derviş was a Vice President at the World Bank in Washingto...
The Republic of Turkiye is gearing up for a massive international operation to enable more than 3 million Turkish nationals living abroad to vote in the upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections, which are taking place on 14 May 2023. Voting stations are being opened in 73 countries worldwi...
Türkiye's Rıza Kayaalp has secured a record-equalling 12th Greco-Roman gold medal at the European Wrestling Championships at the Arena Zagreb in Croatia – the same number as Russian great Aleksandr Karelin. Kayaalp was crowned champion of the super-heavyweight 130-kg division following a closely co...
