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As you are aware, Turkish football fans have been sending you letters regarding the match fixing scandal occured at 2010-2011 season. The centre of this match fixing crime was Fenerbahce FC. After Court given its verdict regarding this case we have been expecting you to give a similar verdict and find Fenerbahce FC guilty of match fixing crime in several games and order Turkish Football Federation to relegate Fenerbahce FC to a lower division.
The Discipline procedures of UEFA, FIFA and Turkish FA clearly outlines that match fixing must be punished with relegation.
We know that you have been investigating this matter carefully with all angles, but it is discgrase for Champions League and Turkish League to have Fenerbahce FC, which is proven match fixers by Turkish courts.
Please find the report we prepared for you below, which we think more than enough for you to make up your mind regarding this case.
Yours truly,
Ender Kuyumcu
The Chronological Lay Out of
the Match Fixing Case in Turkey
1) 03.07.2011-Match Fixing Operation Started: Board members, players, managers of various
clubs were arrested by Turkish police. ( See
Article 1 for people sentenced to imprisonment for match fixing offence by
Court on 02.07.2012 on pages 3-4)
2) 13.07.2011-First Confession about Matxh Fixing: İstanbul BB’s player Ibrahin Akın confessed at
prosecuting attorney’s office alongside his solicitors that he took $100,000.00
from Fenerbahce FC for not scoring against them. ( See Article 2-A and Article 2-B for details on pages 4-5-6)
3) 15.08.2011-First
Ethical Committee Report sent to Turkish FF: Fenerbahce FC, Sivasspor
FC, and Mersin İdmanyurdu FC were found
guilty for match fixing offence.
4) 22.08.2011-Pierre Cornu arrived at Turkey: UEFA sent inspector Pierre Cornu to Turkey to
talk to Turkish FF and the prosecuting attorney Mehmet Berk.
5) 24.08.2011-Trabzonspor FC replaced Fenerbahce FC in
Champions League: After TFF
withdrawn Fenerbahce FC from Champions Leauge, UEFA invited Trabzonspor FC to
the competition.
6) 25.08.2011-Appeals Body rejected Fenerbahce’s request against Turkish FF’s decision that withdrawn
Fenerbahce FC from Champions League.
7) 01.09.2011-Fenerbahce FC applied CAS: Fenerbahce FC applied CAS to stop the Champions
League withdrawn decision of Turkish FF and sued TFF and UEFA for 45 million
Euros for this decision.
8) 09.09.2011-CAS
decided against Fenerbahce FC: CAS
refused Fenerbahce FC’s application on stopping the decision of TFF that
withdrawn them from Champions League.
9) 24.11.2011-First
Political Intervention: Turkish
Parliament changed Sports Law (Law No: 6222) that came in to effect on
14.04.2011 and reduced all sentences that penalises crimes in sport.
10) 26.01.2012-Turkish
FF held a general metting with
the clubs to change the Discipline code 58 in order to save clubs from
relegation those were involved in match fixing but the clubs voted against the
change.
11) 09.02.2012-Mehmet
Ali Aydınlar’s Confession: Mr.
Aydınlar told on a TV programme that he did not want to be the president who
relegated Fenerbahce FC and that is why he postponed the decision and tried to
find a way to save Fenerbehce FC that he is a member of. He added that he was
so sure of Fenerbahce FC’s guiltiness that if they win the case at CAS he would
pay the 45 million euros they asked for.
12) 27.02.2012-New
President elected for TFF: Turkish
FF and the discipline bodies were changed as a result of resignation of Mehmet
Ali Aydınlar (ex-president of TFF) and the board members.
13) 22.03.2012-UEFA
congress in Istanbul: Mr. Michel
Platini told to press that it is not possible to seperate clubs from
individuals on match fixing offences after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan offered him this suggestion. In another press conference Mr. Gianni
Infantino told thatReferees being
banned for life, not because they helped fix matches but because they accepted
being contacted to help fix matches and added 58th article of Disciplinary
Code is the UEFA’s must have code and changing of this code by national
federations can not be accepted and will not be allowed by UEFA.
14) 26.04.2012-Fenerbahce FC withdrawn the case against TFF and UEFA at CAS.
15) 30.04.2012-TFF
changed the Discipline Code 58: TFF
changed the discipline code 58 as well as some other codes in order to prevent
clubs from relegation despite the fact that clubs rejected this change at the
last meeting.
16) 02.05.2012-Second
Ethical Committee report was revealed: Despite
being established after political intervention the second committee also found
Fenerbahce FC guilty of match fixing in 3 matches. Two vice president of
Fenerbahce FC (İlhan Ekşioğlu and Şekip Mosturoğlu) were found guilty along
side players, agents, managers of various clubs.
17) 06.05.2012-PFDK (Professional
Football Discipline Committee) announced the SCANDAL decision: Despite barring Fenerbahce FC vice presidents,
club members, some other team players (played against Fenerbahce FC) that
Fenerbahce FC fixed matches with PFDK invented a solution to prevent clubs from
relegation; Match Fixing was not reflected on
to the pitch!!! (See Article 5 on page 9)
18) 09.05.2012-Political Intervention of Turkish Prime
Minister: Turkish PM Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan told during a press statement that he was beyond an ordinary
supporter and he was a member of Fenerbahce FC congrees. He also repeated his
idea of seperating clubs from individuals despite being rejected by Platini in
March. (Also See Article 6 on page 9)
19) 02.07.2012-Court’s decision on match fixing case: The Judce (Mehmet Ekinci) announced his verdict
on match fixing and found several people guilty from different clubs. Some of
those people and their sentences are as below:.
20) 28.07.2012 Finally, Aziz Yıldırım (
President of Fenerbahce FC ) told on a press statement that, if he committed the match fixing
crime he he did it for Fenerbahce FC, not for himself.
This chronological lay out of the match fixing clearly proves the
existance of match fixing activities during the 2010-2011 season at Turkish
Super League. Ethical Committees, Professional Football Discipline Committee
and the court’s verdict all aggree on one decision; Fenerbahçe FC were involved
in several match fixing activities that led them to win the Championship in
2010-2011 season.
Article
1 : People sentenced to imprisonment for match fixing offence by Court
·
Aziz Yıldırım (President
of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing at
7 matches and establishing and leading a criminal
organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 6 years and 3 months; and
monetary fine of 950.000Euros.
·
Şekip Mosturoğlu (Vice
President of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing
at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for
match-fixing: Imprisonment of 3 years 1 month and 14 days; and monetary fine of
55.500Euros.
·
İlhan Ekşioğlu (Vice President
of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing at
5 matches and member of criminal organisation for
match-fixing: Imprisonment of 4 years and 4 months and 15 days; and monetary
fine of 500.000Euros.
·
Aleaddin Yıldırım
(Director at Fenerbahçe FC Board) - Match-fixing
at 1 match and member of criminal organisation for
match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2 years 7 months and 15 days; and monetary fine
of 75.000Euros.
·
Ahmet Çelebi (Member of
Fenerbahçe FC Congress and Sivasspor FC board member) - Match-fixing at 1 match and member of
criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2 years 7 months.
·
Ali Kıratlı (Member of
Fenerbahçe FC) -
Match-fixing at 1 match and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 3
years 1 month and 14 days; and monetary fine of 55.500Euros.
·
Bülent İbrahim İşçen
(Member of Fenerbahçe FC) -
Match-fixing at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 3
years 7 months and 3 days; and monetary fine of 52.000Euros.
·
Tamer Yelkovan (Chief
Financial Officer of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for
match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2 years 9 months; and monetary fine of
27.700Euros.
·
Sami Dinç (Legal Advisor
of Fenerbahçe FC) -
Match-fixing at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 3
years 1 month and 14 days; and monetary fine of 55.500Euros. (See Article 7 for details)
·
Cemil Turan (Sportive
Director of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing
at 1 match and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2
years 2 months and 7 days; and monetary fine of 8.600Euros.
·
Samet Güzel (Translator
of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing at
1 match and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 1
year and 15 days.
·
Mecnun Odyakmaz (Sivas FC-President) - 1 year and 6 months and 22 days for match fixing in Fenerbahce FC match against
Sivasspor FC. That Fenerbahce FC won 4-3 at the last game of the season and won
the championship.
·
Bülent Uygun (Eskişehir
FC-manager) – 11 months 7 days imprisinmont due to getting
bribe from Fenerbahce FC regarding Eskişehir FC’s match against Trabzonspor
FC.on 22.04.2011.
·
İbrahim Akın (
İstanbul BB player) – 1 year 6 months and 22 days for match fixing for benefit of Fenerbahce FC
at the match that his team lost 2-0 on 01.05.2011.
·
Korcan Çelikay
(Sivasspor FC goal keper) – 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for fixing match for benefit of Fenerbahce FC
at the match that his team lost 4-3 at the last game of the season on
22.05.2011. (See Article 3 Article 4 on pages 6-7-8 for details)
·
Mehmet Yıldız
(Sivasspor FC player) - 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for fixing match for benefit of Fenerbahce FC
at the match that his team lost 4-3 at the last game of the season on
22.05.2011.
Article 2-A :
İbrahim Akın’s deposition alongside his attorney at the public
prosecutor Office;
…I met my agent (Yusuf Turanlı) at a restaurant called Big Chefs
three days before the game after his request. He told me that Fenerbahçe SK
offered me $100,000.00 for not scoring a goal against them. I wasn’t fisrt warm
to the idea.
… Then the game was played. I could not score in the game but felt
psychologically uncomfortable during the game and tried to do my best.
… A week later we met with Yusuf Turanlı at the same restaurant.
He brought me Money in a plastic bag. Then I counted the Money saw he brought
$50,000.00 instead of the $100,000.00 he told me that he was going to bring.
This was the Money that Yusuf Turanlı promised me for not scoring against
Fenerbahçe SK. None of my team mates knew anything about this Money. I do not
know which Fenerbahçe SK board member Yusuf Turanlı took this Money from. There
is not any other Money related business between us and he does not owe me any Money.
I did not spend this Money…
…I met my agent Yusuf Turanlı at the date stated. I told that it
was Beşiktaş JK’s jersey that was taken of Ibrahim Toroman in the plastic bag.
This was not true. The truth was that I took some of the Money promised
to me by Yusuf Turanlı .
…Following Hodja’s request from me to ask for more Money in order
to help more I sent a text message to Yusuf Turanlı and asked for 100,000.00
Euros instead of 100,000.00 dollars in exchange with what he asked me for. This
telephone coversation is about that.
…I know the dtails of the coversations that Ahmet Çelebi, Yusuf
Turanlı and the others, those were mentioned in the file, had between each
other. This might be for getting the match fixing Money but I do not know the
others. I only know Yusuf and I was only in contact with Yusuf Turanlı.
‘I was offered this type of deal 3 times in my football career up
to now and one of them is via Yusuf Turanlı for macth fixing in Fenerbahce SK
game. I am regretful, I only took 50,000.00 dollars and I gave this Money
around’ Ibrahim Akın said.
The persons sentenced for match fixing in Fenerbahce FC- İstanbul
BB game are;
· Aziz
Yıldırım ( Fenerbahce SK-President)
· Tamer
Yelkovan (Fenerbahce SK-Finance Department Manager)
· Yusuf
Turanlı (Agent)
· İbrahim
Akın (İstanbul BB-Footballer)
· Ahmet
Çelebi ( Member of the İllegal Organisation that Aziz Yıldırım was the head of)
· Abdullah
Başak (Member of the İllegal Organisation that Aziz Yıldırım was the head of)
· Bülent
İbrahim İşcen (Member of the İllegal Organisation that Aziz Yıldırım was the
head of)
Article
2-B :
İbrahim
Akın’s telephone coversation with his friend (hodja) regarding the match fixing
money he was going to get for not scoring against Fenerbahce FC. To see whether
it is OK to get this Money in terms of his religion.
İbrahim Akın : X
Hodja : Y
X : Hodja I have to ask you
something. You know we have a game against Fenerbahce FC this weekend. They
said İbrahim must not score and we will give him $100,000.00.
Y: Fine, what are you going to
do?
X : I am asking you hodja, you
ask your men what we need to do.
Y : What does the captain and the
manager of your team say?
X : They don’t say anything.
Because they are Fenerbahce fans, thay can’t tell me not to score or not to
play, other people say this, meaning others telling me not to score.
Y : Fine, OK, These sort of
things do exist in todays football World, don’t they?
X : They do, but I am asking you
hodja; I mean will it be a bad thing, I mean there is monet involved, at the
end they tell me do this and don’t do this.
Y : There is nothing wrong with
it, you are not going to score against Fenerbahce Fc willingly and they will
pay you Money for that. Ofcorse, there is nothing wrong with it, as long as no
one else hear about it. There are poor people here, we will sacrify an animal
and you will feed these poor people.
X. You are right hodja, OK.
Article
3:
17.05.2011
( Before Sivasspor FC – Fenerbahce FC game) Telephone coversation between Yusuf
Turanlı and Korcan Çelikay
KÇ
: I, only you know, if there will be a
chance to play
YT
: Know this
KÇ : Looks like we will climb
another stair,
YT : I hope so.
KÇ : I hope so brother.
YT : What are you doing? Are you
at the facilities ( meaning trainig ground or club centre).
KÇ : Fine, there is no problem.
YT : OK
KÇ : How are you brother?
YT : As I told you
KÇ : Hı ( sound to express I see,
OK)
YT : As I told you, Look ( he
loughs) relax, you think of the operation, the operation
KÇ : Yes brother, I am thinking
of the operation
YT : Ok, Ok. We will finish th
operation and then you will have a holiday
KÇ : It is not that easy brother,
Let there be a pay icrease, pay increase
YT : Pay increase? Great, great.
You relax, relax, Don’t worry about the rest. Money. I love you.
KÇ : Thank you.
YT : Are you going to be here on
Monday?
KÇ : No brother. I am thinking of
going to Kayseri directly without coming here.
YT : So, Who should I talk to
here, to your brother?
KÇ : You brother… You don’t need
to talk to anyone. Why are you gonna talk to anyone?
YT : Should I wait for you then?
KÇ : … we will talk when I come
back brother
YT : Ok, how longa re you going
tos tay there?
KÇ : I will come back after
couple of days stay.
YT : Ok, I will get the present
Sunday noon, Ok?
KÇ : It doesn’t matter brother. It
is not too important whether is stays with you or with me.
YT : You are the man, you are the
man. I kiss you. Take care of yourself.
KÇ : Ok, I’ll see you later.
YT : Ok, my dear, Bye bye.
KÇ : Bye bye.
The persons sentenced for match fixing in Sivasspor FC-Fenerbahce
FC game are;
·
Aziz Yıldırım (
Fenerbahce FC-President )
·
Mecnun Odyakmaz (
Sivasspor FC-President )
·
İlhan Yüksel Ekşioğlu (
Fenerbahce FC-Vice President )
·
Abdullah Başak (Agent )
·
Ahmet Çelebi (Sivasspor
FC board member and Fenerbahce FC congress member )
·
Ali Kıratlı (Member of Fenerbahçe FC )
·
Bülent İbrahim İşcen (Member of Fenerbahçe FC )
·
Fatih Akbaba ( Agent)
·
Korcan Çelikay (
Sivasspor FC-goal Keeper )
·
İlhan
Çelikay ( Korcan Çelikay’s brother )
·
Mehmet
Yıldız ( Sivasspor FC-player )
·
Tamer Yelkovan
(Fenerbahce SK-Finance Department Manager)
·
Yusuf Turanlı (Agent)
Article 4:
Photos of match fixing aggreements from Police
reports :
·
Photos
1-2-3 : Evidence of match fixing deal between Fenerbahce FC and Sivasspor FC
fort he last game of the season that Fenerbahce FC won 3-4 at Sivas.
·
Photo
4 : A scene from İbrahim Akın and Yusuf Turanlı meeting that they aggree on
match fixing for İstanbul BB and Fenerbahce FC game.
Article
5:
Professional
Football Discipline Committee’s (PFDK) Penalties regarding Match Fixixng :
·
İbrahim
Akın ( İstanbul BB-player) : Barred from football for 3 years for match fixing
·
Serdar
Kulbilge ( Genclerbirliği FC-goal keper) :Barred from footbal for 2 years for
match fixing for benefit of Fenerbahce FC at Gençlerbirliği game.
·
Ümit
Karan ( Eskişehirspor FC-player) : Barred from football for getting bribe from
Fenerbahce FC against Trabzonspor FC.
·
İlhan
Yüksel Ekşioğlu ( Fenerbahce FC-Vice President) : Barred from football for 3
years for match fixing in 3 matches.
·
Mehmet
Şekip Mosturoğlu ( Fenerbahce FC-Vice President) : Barred from football for 1
year for giving bribe to Eskişhir FC players against Trabzonspor FC.
·
Ahmet
Çelebi (Sivasspor FC board member and Fenerbahce FC congress member) : Barred
from football for 2 years for match fixing.
·
Cemil
Turan ( Fenerbahce FC-Sportive Director) : Barred from football for 1 year for
match fixing at Fenenerbahce FC-Ankaragücü FC game.
PS :
Despite the second Ethical Committee report was prepared under the political
pressure the persons above barred from football for match fixing offences.
Altough all persons found guilty of match fixing in the first Ethical Committee
report found guilty by court too, PFDK gave a decision under the influence of
politica. Pressure. Despite all efforts, It was not possible to save the names
above as the evidence were too solid against them.
The
Scandal Decision is; PFDK barred players of various teams, board members of
Fenerbahce FC and Sivasspor FC for match fixing for benefit of Fenerbahce FC
and the games ended with the result that they aggreed for, neither Fenerbahce
FC nor Sivasspor Fc were penalised.
Article
6 :
Translation
of Turkish Prime Mininter’s speech regarding match-fixing decision;
Please read the translation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan’s speech below regarding the match fixing decision that Turkish
Football Association Discipline Committee announced the other day…
‘I am a member of Fenerbahce SK congress. I am beyond being an
ordinary supporter…’
‘In democracies, you must penalise real persons, not the
cooperations (clubs)…’
‘Penalising clubs is punishing millions of suppoerters of that
club…’
Article
7:
Sami
Dinç’s conversation with Erdem Konyar ( Emanuel Emenike’s Agent) regarding
Emanuel Emenike, (the
player of Karabükspor who aggreed a deal with Fenerbahçe FC before
Karabükspor-Fenerbahce FC game and refused to play at that game) from Police Records;
Sami Dinç : SD
Erdem Konyar : EK
…
SD : He ( talking about Emenike)
should either say he has pain and will not play or play really crap.
EK : Ok
SD : He should play crap
EK : …
SD : He can’t resist and will
score and we’ll all crap, this can’t be
PS: Emanuel Emenike did not play
against Fenerbahce FC at that game saying that he had pain, despite the doctors
of Karabükspor FC said he was good to play. Emanuel Emenike then signed a
contract with Fenerbahce FC at the end of the season and it turned out from
records that he really signed a contract before the game his team played
against Fenerbahce FC.
The persons sentenced for match fixing in Karabükspor
FC-Fenerbahce FC game are;
·
Aziz Yıldırım (
Fenerbahce FC-President)
·
Mehmet Şekip Mosturoğlu
( Fenerbahce FC- Vice President )
·
Sami Dinç ( Legal
Advisor of Fenerbahce FC )
·
Emanuel Emenike’s file
was seperated from the others as he was outside the country.
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