{"id":914092,"date":"2026-09-29T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914092\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:10:10","slug":"turkey-detains-referee-board-chief-in-soccer-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914092\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey detains referee board chief in soccer corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA \u2013 Turkey has detained the head and six members of its main soccer referee board over accusations of interference in refereeing procedures, Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said, calling it the latest move in a \u201cfight for clean football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities investigated allegations about classification of referees and their assignments, scoring and appointment procedures and officiating rule tests, Gurlek said on X.<\/p>\n<p>Ferhat Gundogdu, chairman of the Turkish Football Federation\u2019s central referee board, was detained, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will resolutely continue our fight for clean football to shed light on allegations that undermine confidence in Turkish football,\u201d Gurlek said.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed to ensure those responsible were held accountable, so as to ensure football is associated with the effort, competition and sportsmanship displayed on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from representatives of Gundogdu via the referee board.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators took statements from complainants and witnesses, sought expert reports, and examined telecom records and financial data from Turkey\u2019s financial crimes watchdog MASAK, the minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA \u2013 Turkey has detained the head and six members of its main soccer referee board over accusations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-914092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914092","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=914092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}