"About Face: Turkish Federation Offers to Organize Event It Dropped
By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN
Late last month, the Turkish Chess Federation withdrew as host of the 2011 European Women’s Championship. The reason given by Ali Nihat Yazici, the federation’s president, was that he and the federation had been treated badly by the European Chess Union, the governing body of the game in Europe. "
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