The Baku Aquatics Centre proved to be a happy hunting ground for Turkey as their dominance started in the women's 50 metres breaststroke with a one-two.

Gulsen Beste Samanci took gold in front of her compatriot Viktoria Zeynep Gunes, who finished in silver medal position.

Anandia Evato of Indonesia took bronze.

Gunes then returned to the pool to take gold in the women's 200m medley, fishing in front of Indonesia's Ressa Dewi and Turkey's Gizem Bozkurt.

Ege Baser continued the Turkish charge in the men's events as he touched the wall first in the 200m backstroke. 

Algeria's Adbellah Ardjoune took silver with Ricky Anggawidjaja of Indonesia securing the bronze.

Demir Atasoy proved too quick in the men's 50m breaststroke as he beat compatriot Huseyin Emre Sakci to the gold medal.

The bronze medal was shared between Indra Gunawan of Indonesia and Syria's Azad Albarazi.

Turkey's dominance was then complete in the sole relay event of the day, the men's 4x100m freestyle.

The team of Doga Celik, Iskender Baslakov, Kemal Arda Gurdal and Sakci prevailed.

Indonesia took second while Iran completed the top three.

Turkish dominance came to an end in the women's 800m freestyle as Souad Nefissa Cherouati of Algeria took gold.

She was followed onto the podium by the Indonesian duo of Dewi, who won her second silver of the day, and Raina Ramdhani who finished with bronze.

Khader Ghetrich Baqlah of Jordan prevailed in the men's 400m freestyle.

Indonesia's Aflah Prawira finished in second place with Turkey's Kaan Ozcan completing the podium.

Turkey also enjoyed success on the shooting range.

Omer Akgun scored an impressive 249.8 points to win a tightly-contested men's 10m air rifle final ahead of Bangladesh's Md Rabbi Hasan Munna on 245.5 at the Baku Shooting Centre.

Sadkhan Sayfuddinov of Uzbekistan took the bronze medal on 224.1.

Akgun was soon followed onto the top of the podium by compatriot Nihan Gurer in the women's trap final.

The 35-year old finished with 41 points, four more than second-placed Shafag Amrahova of Azerbaijan.

Qatar's Khouloud Hassan Al Khalaf settled for the bronze, a further eight points adrift.

Later in the day, Iran claimed first and second place in the 10m air rifle with Uzbekistan's Sakina Mamedova easing into third to prevent a clean sweep.

The event was dominated by Narjest Ememgholi, who finished with 249.6, 3.5 more than her compatriot Elaheh Ahmadi.

However, the brightest moment for the host nation arrived this evening when Azerbaijan’s five-time karate world champion and ten-time European champion, Rafael Aghayev, took gold at the Baku Sports Hall.

Aghayev defeated Sultan Al-Zahrani of Saudi Arabia and Erman Eltemur of Turkey to reach the final of the 75 kilograms event.

The 32-year-old defeated Saadi Ghulam Abbas of Pakistan in the final in front of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev.

Aghayev grabbed an ippon within the first minute of the contest before a yuko shortly after was good enough to see him to the gold medal.

Elsewhere today, boxing made its debut at the Games and there was further delight for Azerbaijan at the Crystal Hall.

Kamran Shakhsuvarli delighted the home crowd as he defeated Guyana's Desmond Amsterdam to reach the quarter-finals of the 75kg competition.

“As the collective spirit of the Muslim world is again highlighted by the Islamic Solidarity Games, sport’s ability to unite people around the world is once more shown to be a hugely powerful tool," said International Boxing Association (AIBA) President CK Wu.

"As boxing’s popularity continues to grow all over the world, AIBA is delighted to see it receive the recognition of becoming a key part of such an important international event, and I look forward to seeing so many of our top athletes competing here in Baku."

Action continues tomorrow where medals are due to be awarded in artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, handball, judo, karate, shooting, swimming and weightlifting.