Barcelona star Arda Turan joins Turkish national team ahead of games against Greece & Qatar

Barcelona star Arda Turan has joined the Hasan Doğan Turkish national team camp in Riva ahead of international friendlies against Greece and Qatar at the end of the week.

Turan has yet to play for Barcelona since joining gone a five-year deal due to the FIFA transfer ban currently in place but it does not apply to international games.

The bearded winger played a key role in ensuring Turkey booked a place in the European Championships this summer playing in the Crescent-Stars last three games that ended in victory against Czech Republic, Iceland and the Netherlands.

Turkish national team call up:

Gökhan Gönül, Şener Özbayraklı, Mehmet Topal, Ozan Tufan, Alper Potuk (Fenerbahçe), Hakan Kadir Balta, Emre Çolak, Selçuk İnan, Yasin Öztekin, Burak Yılmaz (Galatasaray), İsmail Köybaşı, Olcay Şahan, Oğuzhan Özyakup, Cenk Tosun (Beşiktaş), Fehmi Mert Günok, Serdar Aziz, Emre Taşdemir (Bursaspor), Hayrullah Mert Akyüz (Adanaspor), Volkan Babacan (Medipol Başakşehir), Ahmet Çalık (Gençlerbirliği), Atınç Nukan (RB Leipzig), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Bayer Leverkusen), Okay Yokuşlu (Trabzonspor), Arda Turan (Barcelona), Yunus Mallı (Mainz).