Türkiye’s Olympic boxer Buse Naz Cakiroglu beat Finland's Pihla Kaivo-oja to reach the semi-finals in the women’s 50kg flyweight boxing at Paris 2024.

Turkish people have gathered at Ayasofya Grand Mosque in Türkiye’s Istanbul to honour Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated by Israel in Tehran on July 31.

The Hamas political chief’s burial was held in Qatar’s Doha earlier in the day.

Türkiye also declared Friday a day of national mourning.

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that a newly purchased natural gas vessel will be operational in the Sakarya Gas Field in the Black Sea, poised to produce enough natural gas to meet the needs of 5 million households.

#BREAKING: Playing their fourth match in #EURO2024 Türkiye’s national football team defeat Austria with a 2-1 score, advancing to quarter-finals.

Türkiye has historically excelled in the Olympics in wrestling, the ancestral sport that holds a special place in the nation’s heart.

National wrestlers have become Türkiye’s “medal store” in the Olympics.

Playing their third match in #EURO2024 on June 26 in Germany, Türkiye’s national football team defeat Czech Republic with a 2-1 score.

A Turkish-Danish football fairy tale ️

In 2022, the Izmir based club Göztepe S.K. wrote Turkish football history as the first foreign-invested football club in Türkiye when sports investment company Sport Republic became majority owners of the club. Sport Republic co-owner Rasmus Ankersen – himself a former Danish football player – took over as president of Göztepe S.K. and can now celebrate leading the club to the Turkish Super League. Next year, Göztepe S.K. will celebrate their 100th anniversary in Türkiye’s best league. Dreams do come true!

Congratulations Göztepe S.K. and Rasmus Ankersen.

Turkish homegrown fighter jet KAAN on Monday successfully conducted its second successful test flight, said the head of the nation’s Defense Industry Agency.

“Our national combat aircraft, which successfully made its first flight on Feb. 21, took off from the runway at 08.46 this morning, remained in the air for 14 minutes, and reached an altitude of 10,000 feet,” Haluk Gorgun, the agency head, said on X.

KAAN, the first fifth-generation fighter jet manufactured domestically, aims to replace the Turkish army's aging fleet.
KAAN will be capable of air-to-air combat with next-generation weapons and precision strikes from internal weapon mounts at supersonic speed, and will provide increased combat power with AI and neural network support.

The latest development makes Türkiye one of the few countries to own this technology.

It is part of Türkiye’s continuing efforts to shift most of its defense vehicles, weapons, and supplies from foreign sources to domestic ones.

The UN General Assembly included the desecration of holy books, including the Quran, in a draft resolution on racism, discrimination and hate crimes, in response to a proposal submitted by Türkiye.

Ankara’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO, Ambassador Gulnur Aybet, said that, “under Türkiye’s leadership, we added the UNGA resolution declaring crimes against holy books as violations of international law to the UNESCO decision draft.”

“While stating our support for combatting all forms of hate crimes, I emphasised the alarming increase in crimes associated with hatred against Islam in recent years,” the envoy added.

“I noted that UNESCO should act in line with UN resolutions in this regard. The draft resolution was accepted with the amendments we proposed. Let’s continue the fight.”

Quran desecration acts in Europe have ignited a debate about religious tolerance and freedom of expression, prompting calls for a deeper understanding of religious sensitivities and a reconsideration of the balance between free speech and respect for religious beliefs.

In July 2023, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a Morocco-sponsored resolution calling acts of violence against religious symbols, holy books, and places of worship a violation of international law.

Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, has expressed deep concern over the inhumane and degrading treatment inflicted upon Palestinian women and girls, describing the situation on the ground in Palestine’s Gaza as "hell," in a conversation with Türkiye’s Anadolu Agency.

"We know that an estimated 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, 70 percent of them being women and children,” she said, noting that the UN had received “credible reports of Palestinian women being extrajudicially and summarily executed together with children and other family members.”

"Palestinian women and children have been subjected to these egregious crimes against humanity and war crimes because they are Palestinian, but also because they are women," she added.

"We know of thousands of women who have been widowed. Two mothers are killed every hour. Countless children are orphaned, becoming motherless and fatherless," she continued.

Already faced with a lack of access to basic sanitation needs and healthcare, Palestinian women have also reported that they have been sexual assaulted, raped and degraded by Israeli forces, including being stripped naked, photographed and subjected to invasive searches during detention in Gaza.

Alsalem stated that out of 3,000 Palestinians detained in Gaza between October 7 and December 31, 2023, approximately 200 were estimated to be women and girls, while 147 of the 3,700 Palestinians detained in the occupied West Bank were women and 245 were children.

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