Fifa Fair Play award goes to Turkey, Armenia

The FIFA Fair Play Award for 2008 has gone to the football associations of Turkey and Armenia for their part in encouraging dialogue between the two countries, which otherwise lack any diplomatic ties, FIFA's website reported on Monday night. Last September, Turkish President Abdullah Gul spent eight hours in Yerevan, on the invitation of Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan, to attend the two countries' qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In other news, on Monday famous Turkish basketball player Mehmet Okur scored a career-high 43 points for his team, the Utah Jazz, to help it beat Indiana 120-113 in the NBA.