{"id":234356,"date":"2025-10-23T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234356\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:24:08","slug":"turkish-clubs-protest-decision-allowing-israel-to-resume-hosting-euro-basketball-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234356\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish clubs protest decision allowing Israel to resume hosting Euro basketball games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Turkey\u2019s top basketball clubs protested on Wednesday over a EuroLeague decision to once again let Israeli teams host European competition home games in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, \u0130stanbul\u2019s Fenerbah\u00e7e Beko and Anadolu Efes expressed concern at the decision, questioning how it was reached and saying that they had begun talks with EuroLeague\u2019s management over the issue.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"tr\" dir=\"ltr\">Anadolu Efes Spor Kul\u00fcb\u00fc &amp; Fenerbah\u00e7e Beko Ortak A\u00e7\u0131klamas\u0131<\/p>\n<p>EuroLeague\u2019de, \u0130srail tak\u0131mlar\u0131n\u0131n 1 Aral\u0131k 2025 tarihinden itibaren i\u00e7 saha ma\u00e7lar\u0131n\u0131 yeniden \u0130srail\u2019de oynayabilmesine ili\u015fkin haberler g\u00fcndeme gelmi\u015ftir.<\/p>\n<p>21 Ekim 2025 tarihinde EuroLeague y\u00f6netimi taraf\u0131ndan gayri\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5ryLbADhBn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5ryLbADhBn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anadolu Efes SK (@AnadoluEfesSK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnadoluEfesSK\/status\/1981020273366180074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the Israel\u2019s war on Gaza began in October 2023, Israeli clubs in the EuroLeague and EuroCup have played their home games abroad.<\/p>\n<p>But following the October 10 ceasefire agreement, EuroLeague clubs met on Tuesday and \u201capproved the proposal to return matches to Israel starting December 1, 2025,\u201d the body said.<\/p>\n<p>Maccabi Tel Aviv, six-time winners of the competition, and Hapoel Tel Aviv are playing in the EuroLeague this season while Hapoel Jerusalem are in the second-tier EuroCup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFenerbah\u00e7e Beko and Anadolu Efes have expressed their disapproval of the matter and clearly voiced their concerns about the potential outcome should the decision be implemented,\u201d the clubs wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Although the EuroLeague press release and statements by its CEO Paulius Motiejunas \u201cindicated that all members were unanimous during the decision-making process, no vote was taken at the meeting,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Both clubs were in ongoing talks with Turkey\u2019s sporting institutions \u201cand the EuroLeague management regarding this matter\u201d and would make the outcome known, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Both Turkish clubs in the EuroLeague, which only began on September 30, have yet to play away to either Israeli side.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2023, EuroLeague shareholders decided that Israeli clubs would play their international matches on safer grounds due to Israel\u2019s war on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Hapoel Tel Aviv have made their home in Sofia, while Maccabi Tel Aviv\u2019s home base has been Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Turkey\u2019s top basketball clubs protested on Wednesday over a EuroLeague decision to once again let Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-234356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}