Lithuania and Turkey won the respective men’s and women’s gold medals on the final day of Rio 2016 Paralympic goalball competition at the Future Arena here.

Turkey ended their home leg of the World Karate Federation (WKF) Karate1 Premier League series in commanding fashion by winning five of the six gold medals on offer on the final day of the event in Istanbul.

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has opted to postpone "indefinitely" their Under-18 European Championship due to political instability in host nation Turkey.

The 2016 World Deaf Championships are going ahead as planned at Samsun’s Batıpark despite the recent failed military coup in Turkey.

European Athletics is to “look more closely” at the way in which athletes are allowed to transfer allegiance in order to represent new countries in international competition before discussing the matter with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), President Svein Arne Hansen has announced.

Turkey's disgraced Olympic 1500 metres gold medallist Aslı Çakır Alptekin could have an eight-year doping ban lifted early after she acted as a whistleblower if a landmark Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing in Lausanne tomorrow rules in her favour. 

The United States' men won the team title for the second Archery World Cup event in a row on compound finals day in Antalya.

Record-breaking Olympic day activities in Turkey have come to an end with a closing event held in the north-western city of Eskişehir.

Turkey's Adem Kılıççı has been provisionally suspended by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) after becoming the latest athlete revealed as having tested positive following re-analysis of doping samples from the 2012 Olympics in London. 

Turkey, Moldova and Poland each secured two Rio 2016 quota places as the United World Wrestling (UWW) World Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament drew to a close at the Sport Buyant Ukhaa Complex in Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar.

Home favourite Batuhan Gozgec opened his campaign at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) European Olympic Qualification Event with a convincing points victory over Norway’s Hadi Srour in Samsun, Turkey. 

Countries earned vital quota places for this year's Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as the continental qualification tournament at the European Para-Archery Championships came to a close in Saint-Jean-de-Monts in France today.

Azerbaijan secured two gold medals on the penultimate day at the United World Wrestling (UWW) Under-23 European Championships as men’s freestyle action came to the fore at the Bulstrad Arena in Ruse.

Elvan Abeylegesse stands to lose two Olympic silver medals, and one from the World Championships, after being banned for two years by the Turkish Athletics Federation for doping.

Turkey's Gamze Bulut has reportedly failed a drugs test, which would mean that both the gold and silver medallists in the women's 1500 metres at the 2012 Olympics in London have fallen foul of doping rules.