Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey's young midfielder Ozan Tufan was Tuesday targeted by mockery at home and abroad after pictures showed him smoothly adjusting his hair at the very moment Croatia's Luka Modric scored a stunning match-winning volley in Euro 2016. Tufan, 21, was scapegoated by many fans for Turkey's disappointing 1-0 defeat by Croatia over […]

Paris (AFP) – Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric scored a brilliant volley as Croatia defeated Turkey 1-0 in their Euro 2016 Group D on Sunday. Ante Cacic's Croatia dominated throughout, twice hitting the bar in the second half. But it only Modric's 41st-minute strike — his 11th international goal — that separated the teams at […]

Paris (AFP) – French police said a stepped-up force of more than 1,500 officers will patrol at Sunday's Turkey-Croatia Euro 2016 match in Paris which is considered at high risk of hooliganism. "Alert instructions have been reinforced," said Paris police spokeswoman Johanna Primevert, as authorities seek to avoid any repetition of the pitched battles between […]

Istanbul (AFP) – Emre Mor is just 18, has lived all his life in Denmark and only received Turkish citizenship this year after receiving authorisation from his jailed father. Yet the fleet-footed winger, unknown to most Turkish football fans at the start of 2016, has in just weeks become one of the great hopes for […]

Istanbul (AFP) – Arda Turan, who rose from a tough upbringing in a working class Istanbul district to join Barcelona in the highest-profile move ever by a Turkish footballer, has to prove his international class at Euro 2016. No other Turkish player comes close to the profile of Turan, who moved to Atletico Madrid in […]

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey coach Fatih Terim is known as the "emperor" after three stints ruling over the national side, taking them to some of their biggest successes. The European Championship in France will be Turkey's first major tournament in eight years, but they have a track record of putting on an impressive showing on […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Jamie Vardy spared Harry Kane's blushes with a late winner as England edged Turkey 2-1 in their first Euro 2016 warm-up match at Manchester's Etihad Stadium on Sunday. Kane opened the scoring in the third minute, but then clipped the post with a 72nd-minute penalty, won by Vardy, after Hakan […]

London (AFP) – Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane hopes to get an opportunity to partner Jamie Vardy when England tackle Turkey on Sunday in the first of their three Euro 2016 warm-up matches. Kane's 25 Premier League goals earned him the Golden Boot, with Vardy finishing the campaign one goal behind after inspiring Leicester City […]

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey coach Fatih Terim on Wednesday announced his squad for the Euro 2016 finals spearheaded by foreign-based star midfielders Arda Turan and Hakan Calhanoglu, saying the team was aiming for the highest possible outcome. Announcing the squad on state-run TRT Sport television, Terim said he was expecting great things from his side […]

A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) to pay thousands of dollars in compensation after it revoked the refereeing license of a local referee on the grounds that he was gay. The Istanbul court ordered the TFF to pay 23,000 Turkish Lira ($7,900) in material and moral compensation over its treatment […]

Turkey's soccer authorities on Thursday adopted an action plan on fan behavior to prevent a repeat of the whistling and shouting during a minute of silence for the Paris attacks victims that shocked observers. Some Turkish fans shouted "God is great" and booed the opposing Greek team during a minute's silence for the 129 people killed in […]

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Atletico Madrid are reportedly monitoring Fenerbahce midfielder Alper Potuk, with the club seeing the young Turk as a potential replacement for Arda Turan. This week, Turan's representative Ahmet Bulut informed the media that his client would leave the club at the end of the season for one of Europe's top teams. Following that news, we've learned that Atletico are actively looking for […]

It wasn’t supposed to be like this for Trabzonspor. With the team suffering its worst start in the Turkish top-flight in 40 years – four wins and a loss – people have begun to speculate about the future of manager Vahid Halilhodzic. Trabzonspor have only had two wins in competitive matches this season. One came […]

The US Men's National Team played its second match of the Second Off Series today in an international friendly against Turkey. The sold-out crowd at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey, watched the USA win the match after taking an early lead in the game against admittedly a Turkey B team, which some were […]