Turkey refs held 鈥榟ostage鈥
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A TURKISH football team boss took referees hostage for four hours after what was deemed an erroneous decision during a league match — and only released them after a call from the president, local media reported yesterday.
Wednesday’s match between Black Sea team Trabzonspor and Gaziantepspor ended in a 2-2 draw but the crisis erupted after referee Cagatay Sahan ordered extra time when Trabzonspor had expected a penalty.
The decision caused uproar among the home team fans.
Sahan and his three assistants were held captive for four hours at Trabzonspor’s Avni Aker stadium on the orders of team president Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu — who was in Istanbul at the time, the Milliyet newspaper said.
“The referee will not get out of that stadium before I get there,” he reportedly told his managers.
The referees and several representatives of the Turkish Football Federation were locked in their room at the stadium by club officials, only to be freed after a late-night phone call from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“Let’s not cause a scandal before both Turkey and the world,” Erdogan told the club boss, according to the Dogan News Agency.
The referees were given a police escort from the stadium but a group of fans waiting outside hurled bottles and stones at them, the media reported.
The Turkish Football Federation has launched a probe into the incident.
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