{"id":807948,"date":"2026-07-17T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807948\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:52:08","slug":"turkish-authorities-detain-17-soccer-club-officials-in-illegal-betting-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807948\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish authorities detain 17 soccer club officials in illegal betting probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3ASCBB2ASJDCDF36RMK2J4DFBY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 Turkish authorities on Friday detained 17 soccer club officials as part of a widening investigation into alleged illegal betting and match-fixing that has tainted Turkish soccer, officials and reports said.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4KSRIE2WTJALPP34O34ZO4LA5Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In the latest wave of detentions, suspects were taken into custody in simultaneous raids across Istanbul and nine other provinces after an examination of legal betting platforms\u2019 data from 2020 to 2026 showed they had allegedly placed bets while still serving in official roles, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 Turkish authorities on Friday detained 17 soccer club officials as part of a widening investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,2841,283723,561,82,20759,883],"class_list":["post-807948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-general-news","tag-soc-turkey-betting-scandal","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-officiating","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}