Aziz Yıldırım

Businessman Ali Koç was reelected as the president of Fenerbahçe following an election held at the club's ordinary general assembly on June 9.

Koç, who has held the presidency since 2018, faced off against Aziz Yıldırım, the former president who led the club from 1998 to 2018.

Search teams have recovered the body of one of the students who was swept into the sea while trying to capture footage of the waves reaching meters high amid fierce storms in the Black Sea province of Trabzon.

Aziz Yıldırım, the chairman of Istanbul-based sports club Fenerbahçe, has been barred from basketball games for six months and fined 40,000 Turkish Liras ($11,162) for attacking a rival club's chairman.

The head of a major Istanbul sports club was fined 40,000 Turkish Liras ($11,162) on May 8 by the Turkish Basketball Federation for slapping a rival during a match on May 7.        

The federation's disciplinary board also ruled Fenerbahçe Sports Club Chairman Aziz Yıldırım would be banned from games for six months.        

Istanbul prosecutors have launched a probe into Fenerbahçe chairman Aziz Yıldırım on charges of maliciously injuring a rival club's chairman, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported 

Aziz Yıldırım, the chairman of Istanbul-based sports club Fenerbahçe, has slapped Işık Eyigüngör, the chairman of the Near East University club, just ahead of a derby match between the two clubs' women basketball teams scheduled to take place on May 7. 

Istanbul's Fenerbahçe found some relief in a stunning 5-0 win against a strong Kardemir Karabükspor on Oct. 30 at home, following a historically bad start to the Turkish league.

Fener coach Dick Advocaat was happy with the win but poor attendance at the game bothered the experienced Dutchman. 

Ali Koç, a former official of Turkey's Fenerbahçe and a third-generation member of Turkey's wealthiest family, has confirmed he will run as a candidate in a bid to replace the Istanbul-based club's chairman, Aziz Yıldırım. 

The head of Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Mehmet Görmez, has said religious movements should "refrain from engaging in politics."