Winston Barnes became the latest Jamaican sprinter to switch allegiance.

Barnes, who is now known as Emre Zafer Barnes, will start representing Turkey soon.

The former Jamaica College student and training partner of Asafa Powell, will join Jacques Harvey as Jamaicans to switch to Turkey in recently time.

Barnes has a personal best of 10.14 in the 100m and 20.67 over 200m.

Statistics website, tilastopaja started to use the new name of Barnes.

Two weeks ago, news broke that Olympic Games silver medalist Shericka Williams, Andrew Fisher and Kemarley Brown are also on their way to represent the Middle East country of Bahrain.

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