Author: Daily Sabah

Galatasaray enter the final stretch of the 2023-2024 Süper Lig season with a commanding 71 points, three ahead of second-place Fenerbahçe. The team’s 22 wins, five draws, and one loss have placed them in a prime position to clinch their 25th league title. Under Okan Buruk, Galatasaray are eyeing its third consecutive title, a feat only a few elite clubs have managed. With eight games remaining, the Lions have a solid edge. Even if they lose one match and win the rest, they will secure the championship, regardless of Fenerbahçe’s results. Galatasaray also hold the upper hand in the head-to-head…

Galatasaray enter the final stretch of the 2023-2024 Süper Lig season with a commanding 71 points, three ahead of second-place Fenerbahçe. The team’s 22 wins, five draws, and one loss have placed them in a prime position to clinch their 25th league title. Under Okan Buruk, Galatasaray are eyeing its third consecutive title, a feat only a few elite clubs have managed. With eight games remaining, the Lions have a solid edge. Even if they lose one match and win the rest, they will secure the championship, regardless of Fenerbahçe’s results. Galatasaray also hold the upper hand in the head-to-head…

Galatasaray enter the final stretch of the 2023-2024 Süper Lig season with a commanding 71 points, three ahead of second-place Fenerbahçe. The team’s 22 wins, five draws, and one loss have placed them in a prime position to clinch their 25th league title. Under Okan Buruk, Galatasaray are eyeing its third consecutive title, a feat only a few elite clubs have managed. With eight games remaining, the Lions have a solid edge. Even if they lose one match and win the rest, they will secure the championship, regardless of Fenerbahçe’s results. Galatasaray also hold the upper hand in the head-to-head…

Still clinging to hope of salvaging a disastrous season, Manchester United head to France for the first leg of their Europa League quarterfinal against Lyon at Groupama Stadium on Thursday. The match marks the first Europa League meeting between these two clubs, though they have previously clashed four times in the Champions League, most recently in 2008, when United triumphed en route to winning the competition. After a dispiriting 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest in the Premier League, United followed up with a goalless draw against rivals Manchester City at Old Trafford. The lackluster affair raised questions among fans, with…

Istanbul’s former mayor, Ekrem Imamoğlu, who was arrested last month in a corruption investigation, faces fresh accusations dating back to his former tenure as mayor of an Istanbul district. The Sabah newspaper reported that Imamoğlu approved a major housing development, though it was against regulations, helping the developer build more houses on an empty plot of land at the heart of Beylikdüzü district, which he governed between 2014 and 2019. Muhammed Ömer Tüncel, an assembly member of the Beylikdüzü municipality representing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), told Sabah on Tuesday that the housing development, situated next to…

The mayor of Bolu, from Türkiye’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), is facing widespread backlash over a racist social media post targeting the Armenian community. Turkish Armenian Patriarch Sahak II Mashalian on Monday condemned Tanju Özcan, CHP’s mayor for northern Bolu province, for his post on X, which included profanity regarding Armenians while wishing death on the terrorist group PKK’s jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan. While the CHP has not addressed the mayor’s post in any way, the Turkish-Armenian community was outraged. In a written statement, Mashalian stressed that Armenians, “a deep-rooted and inseparable part of this country, continue…

Ali Ender Çolak, head of the natural gas company of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing health reasons. He is the second top name at the municipality leaving his post after Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was arrested on charges of corruption last month. Imamoğlu was among dozens of people held in a probe into corruption and aiding terrorism in a far-reaching probe against him and senior officials of IBB. Earlier, IBB Secretary-General Can Akın Çağlar left his post, though municipality sources denied that it had to do with Imamoğlu’s arrest and said Çağlar was already planning…

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday criticized the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) over riots it incited and boycotts after the arrest of the party’s Istanbul mayor, Ekrem Imamoğlu. “Marginal groups acting as ‘Blackshirts’ of the opposition threaten local businesses,” Erdoğan said, referring to a Mussolini-era fascist group in Italy. “What has surfaced so far is a harbinger of what will come. You cannot prevent justice from prevailing,” Erdoğan told an event of his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in the capital Ankara. He was repeating his earlier remarks that branded pro-CHP riots as an attempt to divert…

Montjuic is bracing for a heavyweight Champions League clash on Wednesday as a red-hot Barcelona side hosts Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of a tantalizing quarter-final with history, revenge, and a spot in the last four on the line. Barcelona enter the tie riding a 22-game unbeaten streak, with 18 wins and their eyes on an unprecedented quadruple. Already Spanish Super Cup champions and Copa del Rey finalists, Hansi Flick’s men are also neck-and-neck with Real Madrid in La Liga – and leading the Champions League in goals scored. But last weekend’s 1-1 home draw against Real Betis served…

Montjuic is bracing for a heavyweight Champions League clash on Wednesday as a red-hot Barcelona side hosts Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of a tantalizing quarter-final with history, revenge, and a spot in the last four on the line. Barcelona enter the tie riding a 22-game unbeaten streak, with 18 wins and their eyes on an unprecedented quadruple. Already Spanish Super Cup champions and Copa del Rey finalists, Hansi Flick’s men are also neck-and-neck with Real Madrid in La Liga – and leading the Champions League in goals scored. But last weekend’s 1-1 home draw against Real Betis served…