by Semih Tuna/ Stuna@eurohoops.web
Tbilisi, Georgia – Furkan Korkmaz became ejected in the online game between Georgia and Turkey, however as it turns out, that changed into most effective the tip of the iceberg.
After the online game, the Turkish national team revealed that the participant became attacked within the hallway of the locker rooms of the Tbilisi area and requested for the punishment of those that did it, or else the team will leave the Eurobasket.
Turkish federation vice-president and former player Omer Onan described the incident: "whereas Furkan Korkmaz was running within the hallway to the locker rooms with our coach, Georgia's avid gamers who had been no longer in the lively roster attacked him at the side of the ejected player (ed.note: Duda Sanadze) and the police. There may still no longer be an attack on the participant that goes to the locker room. at the conclusion of the healthy, 30 policemen every pushed us into a combat. We acquired right into a fight with Georgia's legitimate police. i am calling out to FIBA and i have also informed FIBA's officials. Let nobody deceive themselves or consider that we are dull. they're going to convey us all the digital camera photos from that hall minute by minute without the rest missing. If these cameras do not come to us, we will go away this tournament.
wherever you seem it, there's nothing to hold onto. The non-competing participant, Shengelia, and three individuals sitting on the bench went to the locker room. on the conclusion of the in shape, the police had been in entrance of our locker room. Supposedly they had been conserving us however they pushed us all of the time. We were going to hit every other with our fists".
As assistant coach Hakan Demir who attended the clicking conference, because teach Ergin Ataman turned into also ejected on the end of the second overtime, delivered: "nowadays, the Georgian gamers and some protection guards in the hallway disrespected us. We got here right here to play basketball, now not for the rest. So everything should live on the courtroom, but regrettably, a huge scandal took place off the court docket. Such things do not go well with the spirit of activities. A basketball video game became imagined to be performed nowadays, but lamentably what happened went beyond basketball. we have two extra video games left in Georgia and, unluckily, what happened in the corridors nowadays become against the spirit of the recreation. We anticipated a extra gentlemanly treatment, but lamentably, it did not ensue.
There was a basketball online game with two overtimes on the court docket. every so often we played well and often Georgia performed smartly, however after our player, Furkan Korkmaz, became disqualified, three opposing team players attacked him in the corridors, while security guards attacked our participant and our trainer. We got here right here to play basketball, now not box. for this reason, we are very disturbed by means of the safety weak spot skilled today. we will follow up on this difficulty as smartly".
On exact of that, Turkey officially protested the influence of the video game, as a result of 22 seconds had been mysteriously "lost" from the game clock all through the altercation between Korkmaz and Sanadze.
As Demir defined: "these days the online game changed into 22 seconds shorter. The fact that here's not just 1 or 2 seconds however 22 makes us feel that the circumstance is not only an error. we will follow this as well. We got here to Georgia expecting to be in a sister country. sure, there turned into tension between the players on the courtroom these days, however isn't viable for us to accept what happened later on. gamers can have tension with each other on the court docket, however they're friends off the court docket. It is terribly sad that the protection guards are additionally concerned in the incident nowadays. Of direction, Georgia gained the suit, I congratulate them too, however that's now not the point. What actually concerns is what happens in the corridors".
photograph credit score: FIBA.BASKETBALL
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