Fatih Terim

Fatih Terim steps down as Turkish national football team coach

Fatih Terim, the coach of the Turkish national football team, resigned from his post on July 26. 

Turkish Football Federation (TFF) Chief Yıldırım Demirören confirmed the report, saying that the decision to resign was a mutual consensus.

In a statement on its website, the federation cited "non-football related topics" as "wearing out" both Terim and the TFF.

Forgetting disasters

There are so many similar stories like this…

This time it is from the Aegean district of Soma, struck by a mine coal disaster in 2014 that killed 301 miners. 

Several campaigns were run after the mine disaster; this was the one of them. 

Projects emphasizing on sports were held to overcome the trauma of Soma.

Our sins when it comes to maintaining our cities

We have a characteristic that ruins, renders ugly, complicates and transforms what is beautiful and exemplary into a bad example in a very short time.

Alaçatı has been on the news recently.

There is a fight that Fatih Terim (the director of Turkish Football federation) has been involved in and the news is out there now with its diverse details.

Turkey to play Kosovo under shadow of Arda Turan saga

The Turkish national football team will play a crucial 2018 World Cup qualifying stage game at Kosovo on June 11, but the competition on the pitch is the least of coach Fatih Terim's problems.

The national team has been involved in a scandal since June 5, when team captain and Barcelona player Arda Turan verbally and physically assaulted a veteran journalist on the team plane. 

Barcelona's Arda Turan fires back at football federation, calls attack on journalist an 'honorable mistake'

Barcelona midfielder Arda Turan has defended himself after his physical and verbal assault on a sports journalist, which led to his dismissal from the Turkish national squad, as an "honorable mistake."

Turkish international Barcelona player Arda Turan verbally, physically attacks sports journalist on plane

Turkish international and Barcelona midfielder Arda Turan has verbally and physically assaulted a Turkish sports journalist on a plane carrying the national team from Macedonia's Skopje to Italy's Trieste late on June 5. 

Just before the plane took off, Turan reportedly approached daily Milliyet's Bilal Meşe, who was sitting nearby, and started shouting at him. 

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