Category: Sports
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 ...
OVER 25,000 Galatasaray fans flocked to Instanbul airport to welcome new signing Radamel Falcao to Turkey. The 33-year-old is set to pen a three-year deal with the Super Lig side who are well known for boasting ...
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the newly elected mayor of İstanbul, has received executives from Amedspor, a football club based in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast, the Bold Medya news website reported. “I had promised to stand with them,” ...
If ethnic tensions in Turkey are reflected on the football pitch, then Amedspor and their Kurdish following are at the very centre of the field. The club represents the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern ...
Enes Kanter celebrates Portland’s Game 7 win over the Denver Nuggets. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Turkish sports broadcaster S Sport will not air the NBA’s Western Conference finals between the Golden State Warriors and Portland Trail ...
Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter had a fantastic game for the Trail Blazers in their 97-90 Game 2 win over the Denver Nuggets in the 2019 NBA Playoffs on Wednesday. But he also had to deal with some hurtful ...
Istanbul Basaksehir’s Emmanuel Adebayor, left, is one of the expensive foreign players plying their trade with the club. EPA Critics say Istanbul Basaksehir’s title challange has been bankrolled by money connected to President Erdogan’s ruling party ...
Trail Blazers player Enes Kanter during a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the NBA playoffs last month. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images) This morning I woke up at 3, long before sunrise. It is Ramadan. ...