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 […]
Boxer Metin Turunç won the Universal Boxing Organization (UBO) International Cruiser Weight title against Elnur Mammadov from Azerbaijan in a fight staged in Istanbul on 13 May. This was Turunç’s second major belt and a significant feat for the boxer, nicknamed “Ironfist”, from the embargoed Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. Turunç was initially expected to […]
Azerbaijani athletes took home gold for the Islamic world as the only team from a Muslim-majority nation to finish in the top ten at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. Beating their previous record set in London in 2012, the Paralympians from the South Caucasus state won 10thplace with 19 medals, the highest result achieved […]
As previously reported by T-VINE, Toprak Razgatlıoğlu (Look out for Turkey’s rising motorcycle racing star Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, 24 July 2021) is making waves in the world of motorsport. The 24-year-old star from Alanya currently sits second in the World Superbike Championship, riding for the Pata Yamaha with Brixx team. Despite a busy schedule, Toprak was […]
