Turkey threatens to withdraw from the EuroBasket; Furkan Korkmaz ‘is assaulted’ by players and police – ESPN Deportes

The Turkish Basketball Federation has threatened this Sunday to withdraw from the EuroBasket tournament if the attack suffered by the player Furkan Korkmaz after the match against Georgia in Tbilisi that ended with the Georgian victory by 83-88 is not investigated. Georgian player Dude Sanadze clashed during the match and had to be forcibly separated by other team members, for which they were disqualified, reports the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.TİFLİS’TE ORTALIK KARIŞTI!Sanadze, Furkan Korkmaz’ı resmen ÇILDIRTTI ! İlk kez Furkan’ı bu kadar sinirli görüyoruz. İki oyuncu da diskalifiye edildi. pic.twitter.com/mBEOT7WVfp— Euroleague Time (@euroleaguetime1) September 4, 2022 When Korkmaz headed to the changing rooms, he was attacked by other Georgians, who were not playing at the time, as well as by several policemen, the Federation has asserted. of the Turkish Basketball (TBF) in a statement released on its website. “You cannot attack a player who goes to the locker room. The game is over, we lost, and a shoving fight broke out in the locker room with 30 policemen; the police Georgian official triggered a physical fight”, denounced the vice president of the TBF, Ömer Onan. done, he threatens to withdraw from the tournament. “We tell FIBA ​​very clearly: If the cameras are erased, if there is a breakdown, if two minutes are missing… We will look at the cameras one by one and make a decision accordingly,” he said. Onan. “If this I do not know It’s done urgently, sorry, but we value our players a lot. We will not allow them to do even the slightest harm. We would withdraw from the tournament,” insisted the vice president. Onan attributed responsibility for the incident to FIBA, adding that TBF has challenged the match for violating the rules and that it is even considering demanding that it be repeated.