As the Axé Capoeira group, we fully kitted out the girls’ football team of a village middle school in Polatlı, Ankara — from shoes and balls to socks, tracksuits and jerseys. Thank you to all our students, parents and instructors who helped us grow enough to contribute to social projects. We’ll keep supporting social projects...

The women capoeiristas of Axé Capoeira Türkiye made history by holding a roda and performance with women only. Part of Çankaya Municipality’s Women’s Day events, it took place on a stage set up on Yüksel Street in Kızılay, with women capoeiristas from other groups joining too, and hundreds of people in Ankara watched.

This year a capoeira wind blew through Turkey’s most important academic sports event, the Sport Sciences Congress, organized by Pamukkale University in Denizli on 12-12-2012. After the Axé Capoeira group’s showcase performance, there was a strong impression that capoeira could become an elective in physical education and sport sciences departments at universities across the country....

The Hacettepe University Capoeira Club and the Ankara Capoeira Association, who have always led the way in developing capoeira in Turkey, achieved another first: capoeira is now an official course. For now it is offered as an elective only to Recreation students at Hacettepe University’s School of Sport Sciences and Technology, but the aim is...

Campoeira 2012 (the 9th Axé Capoeira Camp), held in Sinop in July 2012 with 33 participants, was full of unforgettable moments, tough training, great rodas and fun trips. Well done to everyone who took part. Thank you to our valued supporters OPET, Sinop Municipality, Gerze Municipality and Kayıkçıoğlu Oto Tic. A.Ş.