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| Turkey's football federation has voted against a proposed rule change that would have prevented teams found guilty of match-fixing from being relegated. Delegates voted down the proposal in a tense emergency session on Thursday. Turkish courts have charged 93 people, including Fenerbahce President Aziz Yildirim, in a match-fixing scandal that affected 19 leagues games last season. |
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| A prosecutor says 93 people, including Fenerbahce President Aziz Yildirim, are facing criminal charges connected with an alleged match-fixing scandal. Fikret Secen, deputy prosecutor for Istanbul, says Yildirim faces charges of match-fixing and obtaining unfair economic advantages. Yildirim has denied any wrong-doing. |
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| The Turkish Football Federation's ethics committee was studying more than two dozen legal files in a match-fixing probe on Friday to decide whether to postpone the start of the league and impose sanctions against several clubs, including league champion Fenerbahce. Turkish authorities have charged and jailed about 30 suspects, including Fenerbahce president Aziz Yildirim. |
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| Hundreds of Fenerbahce fans, angry over match-fixing allegations against their club, invaded the pitch during a friendly against Ukrainian champion Shakhtar Donetsk, forcing the abandonment of the game. The fans, some wearing masks and T-shirts bearing the picture of jailed club president Aziz Yildirim, invaded the pitch in the 67th minute of the game at Fenerbahce's Sukru Saracoglu stadium in... |
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| Turkish police have detained the president of Trabzonspor and a former official of the Turkish Football Federation for questioning in a growing probe into match fixing. Police detained Trabzonspor President Sadri Sener on Monday, a day after a court charged and jailed Fenerbahce President Aziz Yildirim, pending trial. |
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| Aziz Yildirim, the president of Turkish league champion Fenerbahce, was charged in court on Sunday over his involvement in an alleged match-fixing scandal that threatens to strip the club of its title. Thousands of Fenerbahce fans took to the streets of Istanbul in support of Yildirim and other Fenerbahce officials who were also implicated in the scandal. |
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| The chairman of Fenerbahce,
Aziz Yildirim, arrived in court on Friday to face prosecutors
over allegations of involvement in a match-fixing scandal that
has rocked Turkish soccer.
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| The Turkish state-run news agency says police have detained eight more people in a match-fixing scandal that has implicated league champion Fenerbahce. Anatolia says the arrests were made Monday. Police wouldn't immediately comment. More than 50 people have now been questioned about alleged fixing in the Turkish topflight league last season, including Fenerbahce president Aziz Yildirim and board... |
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| Around 30 people, including
Turkish champions Fenerbahce chairman Aziz Yildirim, have been
detained in custody over match-fixing allegations, state-run
Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.
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| Sercan Yildirim transfer has been agreed by Bursapsor and Lokomotiv Moscow. |
