Turkish league suspended after gun attack on Fenerbahce
Xinhua, April 7, 2015 Adjust font size:
Turkish soccer authorities reacted to the gun attack incident on a bus carrying Fenerbahce team players by suspending Super League and Turkish Cup matches for a week.
The Turkish club said Monday they won't play its league and cup games until those responsible caught.
The Turkish Football Federation and the Union of Turkish Clubs announced Tuesday after an emergency meeting that they had decided to postpone all games by a week in protest of the attack.
The bus was shot at on Saturday near the northern city of Trabzon on the team's return to the airport from a 5-1 win against Black Sea side Caykur Rizespor. The driver was hit in the face and hospitalized. He is in a stable condition.
Fenerbahce officials said the attack was carried out with a shotgun.
The Trabzon chief prosecutor's office said Monday it has launched an attempted murder investigation and that one man had been detained for questioning for making threats against Fenerbahce over the Internet.
Federation head Yildirim Demiroren said, however, that they had ruled against a cancellation of all remaining league games to avoid "rewarding the perpetrators". Endi