ISTANBUL, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Leading Turkish football club Besiktas on Monday evening hosted Chinese Ambassador to Turkey Deng Li in Istanbul to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Meeting the press with Deng, Besiktas President Fikret Orman said that he was very delighted to mark the occasion of the 70th anniversary and his club is ready to send its greetings to the Chinese National Day each year in the future.
Deng expressed his appreciation, voicing hope for the club to continue to promote sports exchanges and people-to-people friendship between China and Turkey.
Besiktas' greeting came before the match kicked off on big screens in Chinese and Turkish watched by 40,000 fans at the stadium and millions of TV viewers.
It is the third time for Besiktas to mark the Chinese National Day since 2017.