Turkish Athletic Federation

Türkiye has been removed from the competition manipulation watch list of World Athletics, the worldwide governing organization for athletics, a Turkish official has announced.

The Turkish Athletic Federation's discovery of Meryem Bekmez's remarkable skills in athletics at the age of 12 saved her from getting married at a young age.

"She would have been married off like her sister, or would be working on the field," said her father Hacı Bekmez, had she not been "discovered" yet.

A recent athletics competition in the western touristic district of Bodrum has been lambasted due to the severe lack of proper equipment and officials, prompting Youth and Sports Ministry to launch an investigation.

Turkish Olympic gold medalist Asl? Çak?r Alptekin was offered to bribe two sons of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) former president Lamine Diack to whitewash her positive doping test in late 2012, according to a second report by the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) independent commission report revealed Jan.

Bulgaria will be represented by 18 athletes at the forthcoming Balkan Indoor Championships, which is scheduled to take place on February 21 in Istanbul.

The championship is organised by the Association of Balkan Athletic Federations and the Turkish Athletic Federation, daily Standart reports.