{"id":35502,"date":"2023-12-14T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/womens-volleyball-team-attacked-in-turkey-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T20:27:06","slug":"womens-volleyball-team-attacked-in-turkey-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/womens-volleyball-team-attacked-in-turkey-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s volleyball team attacked in Turkey | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Turkish women’s volleyball was attacked by spectators during a game in Adana leaving one player requiring stitches to her knee, the club’s president said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Mesut Karabulut, president of the club from Malatya, a city severely affected by the February 6 earthquake, announced he had filed a criminal complaint against opponents Imamoglu Belediye and their supporters.<\/p>\n

“They said unspeakable words to our players and our coaches,” said Karabulut, accusing “an abnormal crowd, mainly men” of throwing both glass and plastic bottles at his team.<\/p>\n

One player needed five stitches for a cut to her knee.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the match, the stands weren’t emptied and our athletes weren’t allowed to go to the locker room,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Glass cups and bottles were thrown onto the court and some tried to get onto the court to beat our athletes.”<\/p>\n

Turkey’s women’s volleyball team won this year’s European Championship, but their triumph also led to them coming under attack from religious extremist and ultra-conservative groups.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred the day after Turkish football was suspended following an attack on a referee by several men, including the president of top-flight Ankaragucu, at the end of a match.<\/p>\n

Referee Halil Umut Meler was released from hospital in Ankara on Wednesday, after undergoing observations and receiving a phone call from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n

The leagues will resume play on December 19, with the Turkish football federation on Thursday set to announce sanctions against Ankaragucu, whose president Faruk Koca, a member of Erdogan’s ruling AKP party, has since resigned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n