Mohamed Salah has arrived in Istanbul, greeted by hundreds of fans, ahead of his expected free transfer to Turkish Super Lig side Trabzonspor, marking a new chapter after nine successful years at Liverpool.
The shirtless protester made a spine-tingling show of defiance to the army soldiers who launched a failed coup attempt on Friday night.
India's boxer Nikhat Zareen stunned two-time World champion Nazym Kyzaibay of Kazakhstan to enter the women's 51kg semi-finals at the Bosphorus Boxing Tournament in Istanbul, on Friday.
A suspected Islamic State jihadist blew himself up in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, during a police raid, injuring four officers, one seriously, media reports said on Sunday.
A leading Turkish soccer club have banned their players from growing beards after their chairman said they looked like students of Islamic vocational schools and set a bad example.
Bastia forward Brandao has been sentenced to one month in prison for headbutting Paris St Germain midfielder Thiago Motta, a French tribunal said on Thursday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the IS extremist group was the "likely perpetrator" of the bomb attack in Gaziantep.
Turkish media said that Dincdag had been a football referee in Trabzon for 13 years when his license was revoked in 2009 and has been unable to officiate at any match since. Homosexuality has been legal in Turkey throughout the period of the modern republic and was also legalised in the Ottoman Empire from the mid-nineteenth century
Heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key intersections in Belgium's capital on Saturday as the government warned of a threat of Paris-style attacks.
Those killed include 41 police officers, 47 civilians, 2 soldiers, 104 coup plotters.
