Mehmet Akif

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has signed off on diplomatic and administrative appointments, marking changes in positions within Turkish missions abroad and several public institutions.

Misli, Türkiye's fastest-growing betting platform, has become the official sponsor of the Turkish women's volleyball national team and the women's volleyball league.

Demirören Holding Board Chair Yıldırım Demirören, Turkish Volleyball Federation President Mehmet Akif Üstündağ, as well as Demirören Holding board members Erdoğan Demirören and Sinan Oktay, attended the signing ceremony.

Around 70 percent of restoration works in the 2,000-year-old ancient Roman theater ongoing since 2020 as part of the Archaeopark Project have concluded.

Being restored in accordance with many international ancient theater reconstruction works, the theater can be used as an open-air stage with an audience capacity of approximately 1,500 people when the work is done.

Turkey defeated the Netherlands in straight sets on Sept. 4 in a bronze-medal game of the CEV Women's EuroVolley.

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Playing at the Stark Arena in Serbia's capital Belgrade, the Turkish team beat the Netherlands with the sets 25-20, 25-19, and 25-23.

A Turkish court on Thursday decided to seize the assets of 12 fugitive suspects, including ringleader of FETÖ, in the 2007 murder case of a prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist unless they return to the country, according to a judicial source.

Turkish volleyball club Fenerbahçe Opet's Cuban-born player Melissa Vargas was granted Turkish citizenship on April 10.

In a statement, Fenerbahçe said Melissa Teresa Vargas Abreu, 21, was given her Turkish identity card by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the Turkish Volleyball Federation's application for Vargas had been confirmed.

A statue of the Ancient Greek god of health Asclepius and a bust of the god Serapis were found during the excavations in the ancient city of Kibyra in the Gölhisar district of the southern province of Burdur.

It has been 84 years since the passing of Mehmet Akif Ersoy, a Turkish poet, author, academic, member of parliament, and the writer of the Turkish National Anthem, in 1936, leaving behind an immortal piece sung by generations of citizens of modern Turkey.

A Turkish state-run agency has provided protective gear to the Kingdom of Lesotho to help the Southern African country curb the outbreak of the coronavirus.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) distributed sanitizers, gloves and masks to the Lesotho Disaster Management Team, according to a statement released on April 19.

Local officials in Prizren, in western Kosovo, have demanded the closure of a school allegedly linked to Turkish exiled cleric Fetullah Gulen - although city officials insist the alleged Gulen link has nothing do with the dispute.