Turkey threatens to give up Eurobasket and accuses Georgia of attacking considered one of its gamers

Assigned to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, group A of Eurobasket might finish with 5 groups out of six. After their defeat in opposition to the host nation (88-91, a.2.p), Turkey threatened to depart the competitors if they can’t get hold of the CCTV pictures of the corridor internet hosting the conferences. Turks accuse Georgian gamers and members police for attacking Furkan Korkmaz on the way in which to the locker room. The rear had simply been expelled for an early battle with Duda Sanadze (thirty fifth).

” When Furkan left the sector, Georgians who weren’t within the squad (twelve gamers for the Euro) attacked him with the opposite participant despatched off (didn’t come) and the policeassures the vice-president of the Turkish Federation Omer Onan in a press launch. I enchantment to FIBA. She should present us with all of the video pictures of this hall, minute by minute, with nothing lacking. If these pictures don’t attain us, we’ll depart the Eurobasket. »

A refereeing error throughout the Korkmaz-Sanadze altercation

” We got here to play basketballadded assistant coach Hakan Demir at a press convention. What occurred within the hallway to the locker room shouldn’t be regular, we anticipated extra hospitality. There could also be altercations on the sector however not off it. The Turkish anger was elevated tenfold by a refereeing error: time was restarted throughout the altercation between Korkmaz and Sanadze and 22 seconds handed. These had been then not put again on the clock and Turkey lodged a protest.