{"id":46316,"date":"2014-01-17T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=46316"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:59:35","slug":"turkish-high-court-upheld-the-sentence-fenerbahce-chairman-match-fixing-case-breaking-news-46316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-high-court-upheld-the-sentence-fenerbahce-chairman-match-fixing-case-breaking-news-46316\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish High Court upheld the sentence Fenerbahce chairman match-fixing case \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Chairman-Of-Fenerbahce-Aziz-Yildirim-Match-Fixing-Case.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46336\" title=\"Chairman-Of-Fenerbahce-Aziz-Yildirim-Match-Fixing-Case\" alt=\"Chairman-Of-Fenerbahce-Aziz-Yildirim-Match-Fixing-Case\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Chairman-Of-Fenerbahce-Aziz-Yildirim-Match-Fixing-Case.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Chairman-Of-Fenerbahce-Aziz-Yildirim-Match-Fixing-Case.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Chairman-Of-Fenerbahce-Aziz-Yildirim-Match-Fixing-Case-280x134.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Turkish High\u00a0court approves conviction of Super league Giants Fenerbahce &amp; Besiktas \u00a0in match-fixing case.<\/h1>\n<p>The High court announced that it had partially approved some convictions, but had also quashed the convictions of some of the 85 people involved in the case.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Aziz Yildirim Chairman of Fenerbahce Istanbul was sentenced to six years and three months in prison and given a penalty of one million Turkish Liras for match-fixing and forming an unarmed crime gang.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s ruling will also prevent Yildirim from working for the club.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA also banned Besiktas and Fenerbahce from European competitions for match-fixing.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of individuals, including agents, former players and club managers were arrested in two waves of the probe, with Yildirim being the highest-profile figure.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling means that Aziz Yildirim can no longer serve as a club official, according to the code for football club administrations. The sanction had required the approval of the appeals court to go into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m, along with fellow \u00a0Fenerbahce\u00a0officials Ilhan Eksioglu, Sekip Mosturo\u011flu, Tamer Yelkovan and Cemil Turan, were also found guilty of manipulating several games from the 2010-2011 Turkish championship.<\/p>\n<p>The case also involved a number of officials from Besiktas, Eski\u015fehirspor, Sivasspor, Giresunspor and Diyarbak\u0131rspor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish High court approves conviction of Super league Giants Fenerbahce &#038; Besiktas  in match-fixing case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,63,1,118,171,174,194,173],"tags":[63511,63510,1700,77166,483,63509,16316,5882,63507,77182,5883,20433,63508],"class_list":["post-46316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-aziz-yildirim-match-fixing-case","tag-besikats-match-fixing","tag-besiktas","tag-breaking-news","tag-fenerbahce","tag-fenerbahce-chairman-yildirim","tag-fenerbahce-match-fixing","tag-match-fixing-turkey","tag-match-fixing-case-turkey","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-match-fixing","tag-turkey-match-fixing-case","tag-turkisg-court-upheld-sentence-match-fixing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78427,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46316\/revisions\/78427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}