Lundi 12 octobre, le Président de la CMSB Claude Azéma, assisté des présidents de la CBI Romolo Rizzoli et de la FIB Christian Lacoste, donnera une conférence de presse à l'ouverture du salon Sportel à Monaco pour annoncer officiellement aux médias la candidature de nos sports boules aux Jeux Olympiques.  

19-23 September 2018St. Louis, Missouri, USA

1-4 November 2018Kemer, Antalya, TURKEY

1-4 December 2018 New Delhi - INDIA

1 December 2018Campobasso- ITALY

CBI Board of Directors and Technical Committee had a 2 days working meeting on 20-21 September in Sondrio, Italy during the European Bocce Championship. The first day, general discussions with the participation of the head delegations took place. The second day the meeting was solely between the board of directors and the technical committee.

International Bocce Tournament played in Missouri, USA resulted with the victory of the Italian team; MP Filtri Caccialanza. 

10th International Kemer Open (Raffa, Petanque and Volo) Tournament and 2nd Balkan Bocce (Raffa, Petanque, and Volo) Championship were held in Kemer, Antalya, Turkey with more than 300 participants from 16 nations.  

5-6 January 2019Budrione, ITALY

Italian team took the first place wining against San Marino, Switzerland third place and Turkey fourth place in International Quadrangular Tournament played in Campobasso on 1-2 December. 

The president of CBI, Mutlu Turkmen, visited the vice president of International Olympic Committee (IOC), Ugur Erdener, and had a fruitful meeting on the bid of Boules Sports inclusion to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games. 

CBI President Dr. Mutlu Turkmen participated TAFISA Jurgen Palm Award Ceremony presented to the EU Commissioner Tibor Navracsics in Brussels.

7-8 September 2019Winterthur - SWITZERLAND

World Bocce Championship, with the new format and new disciplines, was held successfully in Tucuman Argentina between the 5th and the 10th of March 2019.    

5-6 October 2019Lugano - SWITZERLAND

25-28 October 2019Kemer - TURKEY

The first Asian Oceania Juniors Championship was held in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia with the participation of 6 nations and 7 teams.  The organization which qualified first 3 teams for the world championship was a big success. 

CBI was approved as a full member of TAFISA during the 26th TAFISA General Assembly held in Tokyo on the 15th of November 2019. 

Bocce will be included in the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games which will be held in Konya, Turkey, in 2021. 

26-31 October 2021Kemer - TURKEY

During the 3rd International World Ethnosport Forum which was held in Antalya Turkey with the participation of delegates from 49 countries including 11 ministers of sports. One of the participants in the forum was CBI president Mutlu Turkmen and signed an MoU with the president of WEC, Mr. Bilal Erdogan. 

CBI Executive Committee had an online meeting on the 11th of April at 13:00 (CET Time) and decided to postpone World Juniors Championship to 2021.  

CBI executive committee had another online meeting on the 29th July 2020 evaluating new issues and ongoing problems caused by Covid19. 

CBI Executive Committee had its first meeting of 2021 on the 16th of January in order to discuss various issues. 

CBI Executive Committee had its virtual meeting on the 1st of July and decided to postpone the World Bocce Juniors Championship to 2022.  

During the silence in the international tournament calendar, Lučenec managed to host the 11th edition of the Central European Raffa Tournament. 

During the 12th International Kemer Open Tournament, the first "Precision Shooting" tournament was organized.  

22-25 October 2022Kemer - TURKEY

30 October - 5 November 2022Mersin - TURKEY

CBI ExCom virtual meeting was held on the 17th December 2021.  The meeting started with a 1-minute silence for the memory of Mr Limardo, CBI vice-president, who passed away a short time ago. The main issues discussed and decisions taken in the meeting are as follows; 

22-23 July 2022Palazzo di Bocce,  Lake Orion, MI, USA

Palazzo di Bocce hosted the second edition of its International Invitational Tournament on 22-23 July 2022. 

Bocce took its place for the first time in the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games which was held in Konya-Turkiye from 9th to 18th of August 2022. 

7 January 2023Budrione - ITALY

8 January 2023Budrione - ITALY

25-29 October 2023Kemer - TURKEY

L'Aquila, as the European Sports City in 2022, hosted an international Bocce tournament gathering 8 best players from the world. 

The former chair of the CBI Auditors Committee, Mr. Mehmet Demirdelen, lost his life on the 4th of June due to a heart attack. 

28-30 May 2024Hong Kong - CHINA

17-20 October 2024Kemer / Antalya - TÜRKİYE

European Juniors Championship in Rome was finished with the amazing performance of the athletes on the final day. 

The 15th National Petanque and Bocce Championships for Men and Women, together with the 16th General Assembly of the Iran Petanque and Bocee Association, were organized successfully at the newly opened center of this association talent identification and development located in the South-West of Iran in the Shahid Ghorbani International Sport Complex, Ahwaz City, Khouzestan Province during Feb 20-25, 2024.

The CBI General Assembly was held in Kemer during the World Championship, and Turkmen was re-elected as the president for the new cycle.