{"id":441646,"date":"2023-12-12T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=441646"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:20:11","slug":"club-president-of-a-turkish-league-punches-the-referee-gets-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/club-president-of-a-turkish-league-punches-the-referee-gets-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Club President Of A Turkish League Punches The Referee, Gets Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish Football Federation suspended all league games after the president of a top-tier soccer team hit a referee in the face at the conclusion of the match, leading to the president&#8217;s detention on Tuesday by Turkish police.<\/p>\n<h2>Club President Of A Turkish League Punches The Referee, Gets Arrested<\/h2>\n<p>After the final whistle on Monday night, MKE Ankaragucu&#8217;s president, Faruk Koca, confronted referee Halil Umut Meler on the field after their Super Lig match against Caykur Rizespor ended in a 1-1 tie.<\/p>\n<p>After Rizespor scored a last-minute equalizer, fans stormed the field, and the referee, already on the ground, was kicked as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Absolutely crazy scenes between Ankaragucu\u2019s 1-1 draw with Rizespor.<\/p>\n<p>Halil Umut Meler, stood with his assistants at the final whistle, Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca knocks him out!<\/p>\n<p>Ironically Faruk Koca won the Turkish Super Lig&#39; fairplay award in 2022 \ud83d\udc80<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AGv%C3%87RS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AGv\u00c7RS<\/a> \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GFb5HW2pOd\">pic.twitter.com\/GFb5HW2pOd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ali (@RoyMustang786) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyMustang786\/status\/1734320120313331851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the final whistle went, Ankaragucu&#8217;s president, Faruk Koca, stormed onto the field and struck referee Halil Umut Meler, tying the score at one.<\/p>\n<p>When Ankaragucu supporters stormed the field and kicked the referee as he went down, Meler was further attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Police assisted him in getting to the changing room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe matches in all leagues have been postponed indefinitely,\u201d Turkish FA chairman Mehmet Buyukeksi said in a news conference. \u201cThis attack is a night of shame for Turkish football.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The president of top tier Turkish soccer club Ankaragucu, Faruk Koca, was arrested for punching a referee in the face at the end of a match. The official told police that Koca had threatened to kill him <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9mTg66KhGt\">https:\/\/t.co\/9mTg66KhGt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YfcWsqEFFD\">pic.twitter.com\/YfcWsqEFFD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1734601502616866860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball matches are not a war, there is no death at the end,\u201d he added. \u201cNot all teams can become champions at the same time. We all need to understand this. We invite everyone to take responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Ankaragucu] and its managers will be punished most severely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that two people have been detained in an investigation into the incident, with a detention order issued for Koca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Ankaragucu] and its managers will be punished most severely.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u274c There&#39;s no room for this in sport \u274c<\/p>\n<p>A referee was punched to the floor by a club president after a Turkish top flight match.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa and Uefa elite official Halil Umut Meler was punched by MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca after his team conceded a 97th-minute equaliser. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W2QhsKQLdZ\">pic.twitter.com\/W2QhsKQLdZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1734335913843442004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that two people have been detained in an investigation into the incident, with a detention order issued for Koca.<br \/>\nThe ministry shared footage of the referee laying on a hospital bed with a swollen face and a neck brace.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mehmet Yorubulut, head physician of Acibadem hospital, &#8220;the bleeding in Meler&#8217;s left eye started to decrease&#8221; and there won&#8217;t be any long-term effects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fracture there will gradually heal. He stated, &#8220;There isn&#8217;t any brain damage, and he will probably be released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With this public announcement down here, yesterday&#39;s perpetrator Faruk Koca has officially announced, that he has resigned from his position as the president of Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc!<\/p>\n<p>Great news for Turkish football. The last missing piece: the punishment of Faruk Koca. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HwRQVNGd3L\">https:\/\/t.co\/HwRQVNGd3L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Football in T\u00fcrkiye \u26bd\ufe0f\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7 (@KaralarOsman1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaralarOsman1\/status\/1734597502999912719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As a member of President Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s ruling AK Party, club president Koca was twice elected to the Turkish parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He declared, &#8220;Sports means brotherhood and peace.&#8221; Sport and violence are irreconcilable. We will never consent to acts of violence in Turkish sports.<\/p>\n<p>After the draw, Ankaragucu is ranked 4-6-5, eleventh out of 20 teams in the TFF, while Rizespor is ranked 6-4-5.<\/p>\n<p>Despite efforts to curb it, soccer violence is rampant in Turkey and several other European nations; nonetheless, high-level referee attacks are uncommon.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1734606658754724342<\/p>\n<p>Following a sports-related incident last week that left a police officer with life-threatening injuries, Greece declared on Monday that all top-tier soccer matches will be played without spectators in the stadiums for the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>Following the killing of a supporter earlier this month, France&#8217;s minister of sports demanded &#8220;a global and extraordinarily determined to response&#8221; to soccer violence. According to Ameli Oudea-Castera, the actions can include regular prohibitions on spectator travel to away games when there is a chance of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The season in France has been plagued by homophobic and racist chanting in the stands while \u00a0a team bus was pelted with stones and a game was called off because of crowd trouble.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All matches in the Turkish football leagues have been suspended indefinitely by the Turkish  football association after Ankaragucu&#39;s president, Faruk Koca punched the referee in the face at the full time whistle of their Super Lig home match against Rizespor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qHcYilBF9R\">pic.twitter.com\/qHcYilBF9R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Noble Broadcasting Network (NBN) (@noble_nbn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noble_nbn\/status\/1734573233049886976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wolverines Basketball Coach Juwan Howard Gets Into An Altercation With Conditioning Coach\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wolverines-basketball-coach-juwan-howard-gets-into-an-altercation-with-conditioning-coach\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Wolverines Basketball Coach Juwan Howard Gets Into An Altercation With Conditioning Coach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish Football Federation suspended all league games after the president of a top-tier soccer team hit a referee in the face at the conclusion of the match, leading to the president&#8217;s detention on Tuesday by Turkish police. 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