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Trabzonspor win Turkish Süper Lig title, for first time in 38 years
Trabzonspor on April 30 won the Turkish Süper Lig title for first time in 38 years as they clinched the trophy with three matches to spare.
Fans from the Black Sea team flooded the pitch to celebrate the triumph minutes before the end of a 2-2 home draw against Antalyaspor.
It is the club's seventh league title in its history, and first since 1984.
Bahçeşehir College wins to claim FIBA Europe Cup trophy
Bahçeşehir College basketball team weathered another valiant fightback from Unahotels Reggio Emilia to claim the FIBA Europe Cup title with a 90-74 second leg victory on the night of April 27.
The Istanbul club became the competition's first winner from Turkey after securing an overall 162-143 triumph in front of a FIBA Europe Cup Final record crowd of 13,485.
Rowing on Bosphorus latest popular trend
Rowing in Istanbul's Golden Horn has become the new sports trend in Turkey's biggest metropolis, with a number of people willing to join an outdoor activity rather than staying indoors following the coronavirus pandemic.
"The growth rate of this sport has increased by five times through the pandemic," Fırat Fırat, a rowing instructor at Haliç Rowing Club, said on April 24.
Ukrainian paralympians stranded in Turkey
Athletes from the Ukrainian Paralympic team have been stranded in Istanbul for weeks as they failed to return to their countries after the Russian invasion started.
The athletes arrived in Istanbul on Feb. 14 for training and were supposed go back to Ukraine in March.
As the war broke out, they could not return to the country and spent some 10 days at a Turkish athlete's home.
Man killed in bus bomb attack in Turkey
The explosion hit a bus in Turkey’s northwestern province of Bursa
Turkish Defence Minister Akar: Greece is provoking – Its armament efforts are futile
Akar said if Greece was arming against Turkey, it is a futile effort
Turkish F-16 overflights at Oinousses and Panagia
Turkey continues to provoke Greece in the Aegean Sea
Women football players get into fistfight
Turkish women's football league has witnessed the first incident of "violence in sports" in history, with players of the Süper Lig team Amedspor attacking the Fenerbahçe footballers at the end of a match in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.
Fenerbahçe won the match 2-1 with the last-minute penalty goal on April 2.