Sport overcomes politics as Turkey hosts Israelis amid rising tensions
By Ben Hartman, for CNN
September 22, 2011 -- Updated 1159 GMT (1959 HKT)
Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- They traveled to Istanbul amid fears that mob violence might erupt as relations between two once-friendly nations turned ugly.
But if Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israeli club's supporters received any trouble from the people of Turkey last week, it was only on the football pitch.
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