Fenerbahçe will sign German midfielder Mesut Özil from Arsenal for three-and-a-half years for an undisclosed fee, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing Turkey’s private Demirören news agency and other Turkish media outlets. While there was no ...
The Champions League match between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir was abandoned after both teams walked off the pitch following an alleged racist slur by the fourth official. Play was initially suspended for almost two ...
German-Turkish footballer Mesut Ozil has voiced his support for Azerbaijan in the recent flare up over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, just days after his former Arsenal teammate Henrikh Mkhitaryan urged world leaders to defend Armenia. ...
In the latest example of self-censorship in Turkey, commentators on Turkish TV channel S Sports, the official broadcaster of the NBA games in the country, did not mention Boston Celtic center Enes Kanter’s name during ...
London (AFP) Former Premier League striker Demba Ba has called on football to condemn China’s alleged persecution of its mainly Muslim Uighur minority, and accused the sport of putting money before morals. The Senegalese international, ...
Bilal Erdogan (son of President Erdogan) celebrating the championship. The Istanbul Basaksehir club became Turkish champion on Sunday for the first time in its history. An unprecedented coronation which owes a lot to the massive investments of ...
Kanter’s father, who was facing a multi-year prison sentence, is now a free man. Celtics center Enes Kanter can’t recall the last conversation he had with his father. “Man,” he said, trying to think back. ...
Enes Kanter, a Turkish NBA player who has been publicly critical of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, criticized Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar Tuesday night for appearing to be on Erdogan’s “payroll.” “What an absolute disappointment ...
Celtics star Enes Kanter isn’t backing down from speaking out on issues important to him. In a first-person opinion piece published Thursday by The Boston Globe, Kanter wrote a letter detailing recent incidents in the United ...
SHANGHAI — In the ultimate moments, everything hinged on free throws. Turkey missed them. The U.S. made them. And that is how the Americans escaped what would have been a massive World Cup upset. Khris Middleton‘s ...