The Turk, who finished second in the 2016 World Cup, scored an impressive 249.8 points to dominate a tightly-contested final.
He finished ahead of silver medalist Md Rabbi Hasan Munna of Bangladesh with 245.5 points while Uzbekistan's Sadkhan Sayfuddinov took the bronze with 224.1 points.
Turkish shooter Akgun bags first gold of Games
13 May 2017
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Turkey's Omer Akgun claimed the first gold medal of the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games as he won the men's 10-metre air rifle final in Baku on Saturday.
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