World Bicycle Day 2022 is on Friday, 3 June 2022. The fifth World Bicycle Day observance is being celebrated on this date. The United Nations celebrated the first World Bicycle Day on Sunday, June 3, 2018, at UN General Assembly in New York. UN officials, diplomats, athletes, and advocates of the cycling community spoke at the first inaugural event in New York, sharing how bicycles serve their riders in several ways. The theme of World Bicycle Day may be claimed as, “Uniqueness, versatility, the longevity of the bicycle and simple, sustainable, affordable, reliable, means of transportation”. This extracted theme of world bicycle day reveals the observance aim of such a special day.

The United Nations has changed the Republic of Turkey’s country name at the organisation from “Turkey” to “Türkiye”, following a request from Ankara for the change. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that a letter had been received on Wednesday from the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu addressed to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, requesting the use of “Türkiye” instead of “Turkey” for all affairs.