Turkey Gives Football Referees Red Card After Failed Coup
By Conor Gaffey On 8/3/16 at 4:16 AM
The wide-ranging crackdown in the wake of Turkey’s failed military coup has taken on a new and surprising target—football referees.
The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) announced on Tuesday that it had fired 94 officials, including referees, in the wake of the attempted takeover by a faction within Turkey’s military. The TFF said that those dismissed included “regional and nationally ranked referees and assistant referees, regional refereeing committee members and national and regional observers,” in a statement reported by AFP.
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