March 19 – Turkey’s Fenerbahçe have called an emergency meeting to vote on whether the club should withdraw from the Turkish Super Lig after the unprecedented scenes following the match with Trabzonspor on Sunday, when Trabzonspor fans attacked Fenerbahce players.
Fenerbahçe met immediately following the game, and agreed to call an Extraordinary General Assembly which will be held April 2. The single agenda item will to decide whether the club will withdraw from Turkey’s elite football division or not.
In a wide-ranging statement, Fenerbahçe president Ali Y. Koç (pictured) announced that he has resigned from the Clubs Union Foundation of Turkey and is ready to send the club to the country’s amateur divisions in an attempt to solve the problems of Turkish football.
“We are going to an Extraordinary General Assembly. As Fenerbahce, we have to draw our own fate, our own future. We are going to the General Assembly on April 2. The call was just made. We are going to an Extraordinary General Assembly and hopefully, with God’s permission, we need to do what we need to do. We need to cut our own ties because this will continue like this. We would like to thank our President and Ministers for his intervention after the events took place yesterday. God bless them, they intervened in every process after the events and made us feel comfortable,” said Koc.
“However, they should not have intervened and the local authorities should have provided the necessary environment. By taking the necessary security measures, putting the police there and conducting a body search. Therefore, yesterday’s events need to be viewed differently from a bigger window. These are not events that will happen in any Fenerbahçe Trabzon match. Even after the league conflict between 1995 and 1996, when tensions reached their peak, there had never been such violence and hatred,” Koc continued.
“We will not accept this treatment in our own country. We have said many…
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Author : Paul Nicholson
Publish date : 2024-03-19 06:38:15
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