The campaign to qualify for the European 2024 Championship finals in Germany is fully underway, with all 53 teams in the ten groups in action during the international break, with games taking place between 23 and 28 March. Among those vying for a place in the finals are Turkiye, Azerbaijan, and the four home nations: […]
The international football break is well underway, with several Euro 2024 qualifiers, including England’s against Italy, and Azerbaijan’s against Austria, already taking place. Italy v England – and Harry Kane making history England were facing arguably their toughest opponents in Group C, Italy, away in Naples on Thursday night. Goals by Declan Rice (13thminute) and […]
Adem Asil’s year just keeps on getting better. The Turkish gymnast added to the silver medal he won earlier this year at the European Championships with a gold at the World Gymnastics Championships in Liverpool following a superb display on the rings that culminated on Saturday, 5 November. The athlete scored 14.933 with his performance […]
One of Turkiye’s finest sports presenters and journalists, Halit Kıvanç, who was behind many broadcasting ‘firsts’, has been laid to rest. He passed away on Tuesday, 25 October, aged 97. Kıvanç’s funeral, at Istanbul’s Zincirlikuyu Mosque and Cemetery, was attended by hundreds of people, including notable faces from the worlds of media, sport, entertainment, and […]
The Sultans of the Net are out of the World Cup are failing to find a way past a strong USA side in their quarterfinal match in Poland. The Turks were on the back foot from the start of the match, losing in three straight sets to the Americans: 25-22, 25-15, and 25-20. The defeat […]
Turkiye have reached the last eight of the FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship 2022, but have to overcome a tough American side today in order to progress to the semis. The Sultans of the Net, who topped their first round group, qualified for the quarter-finals despite losing two of their four games in Round 2, […]
Turkiye’s national volleyball team is through to the final sixteen of the Women’s World Championship after beating host nation Poland 3-2. The Turks topped their group after four wins and one defeat. The Sultans of the Net, known as ‘Filenin Sultanları’ in Turkish, became Pool B leaders despite losing their opening bout of the tournament 2-3 […]
Eastern Mediterranean University postgraduate Ese Brume is the new Women’s Long Jump Champion after winning gold at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Sunday. The Nigerian national had already broken the Commonwealth Games record with her second jump, a huge 6.99m. She bettered that with her very last jump of the final, leaping exactly 7 metres […]
Aysu Türkoğlu made history at the weekend by becoming the youngest Turk to swim across the English Channel. The 21-year-old Turkish student entered the water at Dover 10:02 UK time on Friday, 29 July, and completed her swim at Cap Gris-Nez, in northern France, 16 hours and 28 minutes later. Türkoğlu, who had to battle […]
Turkiye equalled its best ever performance at the 19thMediterranean Games, leaving with a huge of hoard of medals that propelled it to second place in the medals table, just behind table toppers Italy. A total of 321 athletes from Turkiye took part in the Oran Games in Algeria, which ran from 25 June until 6 […]
