Fenerbahçe S.K.

Spor Toto Super League leader Galatasaray hosts Be?ikta? this weekend in a game that could see the Istanbul club take the last step toward the league title.

Turkish Spor Toto Süper League leaders Galatasaray advanced to the Ziraat Turkey Cup's semi-final May 29 with an aggregate score of 5-3 against Medicana Sivasspor, despite losing the second leg 2-1 away in Sivas.

The Turkish Basketball League (TBL) playoffs get underway on May 20, as third seed Darü??afaka Do?u? welcomes Trabzonspor Medical Park to Ayhan ?ahenk Arena with tip-off scheduled for 6:45 p.m. local time and second seed Anadolu Efes hosts Türk Telekom at Istanbul's Abdi ?pekçi Arena.

The playoff action will continue on May 21, when Izmir-based P?nar Kar??yaka will take on Banvit. 

Eight-time Euroleague champions Real Madrid and triple former winners Olympiakos Piraeus reached the premier club competition's final with contrasting wins on May 15. 

As two leading title contenders, Be?ikta? and Fenerbahçe, lost two key points each during the rare week day campaign at Spor Toto Super League, leader Galatasaray prepares to take on Gençlerbirli?i, a match that might clear the way to the season title for the Istanbul side.

Fenerbahçe captain Emre Belözo?lu has been attacked by a group of Be?ikta? supporters on an interprovincial ferry.

Belözo?lu was heading to the Mudanya district of Bursa May 14 for an opening ceremony on the same ferry with Be?ikta? supporters who were bound for the Akhisar district of Manisa for the upcoming match.

The title race in the Spor Toto Super League may take a new twist this weekend when league leader Be?ikta? visits Trabzonspor on May 3 in Week 29 of the season.

Fenerbahçe Ülker hit the court with a vengeance, took a big early lead and never looked back en route to an 82-67, Game 2 victory over Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv in the Euroleague Playoffs.

Andrew Goudelock led the way with 17 first-half points as Fenerbahçe took a 2-0 series lead and moved within one win of its first appearance in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an held a highly unusual meeting with the captains of all of Turkey?s top flight football sides on April 12 over the status of the league a week after a gun attack on the Fenerbahçe team bus.

Despite the rise in religious conservatism and erosion of certain secular values in the last decade, Turkey still differs tremendously from the other majority Muslim societies.