Aziz Yildirim News
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Turkey’s benchmark ISE National 100 Index fell 1 percent to 61,951.16 at the close in Istanbul, after rising 2.8 percent on June 29, paring its gain this year to 21 percent.
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A Turkish court decided to release Aziz Yildirim, chairman of Turkish soccer club Fenerbahce Futbol AS, after he spent one year in jail for alleged involvement in match-fixing, Anatolia reported.
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The first report by the Turkish Football Federation’s ethics commission on a league bribery scandal found no evidence that jailed Fenerbahce president Aziz Yildirim was involved, Vatan newspaper reported.
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Turkish soccer champion Fenerbahce threatened to withdraw from the country’s top competition after the football federation said some of its executives were involved in match-fixing.
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Fenerbahce Sports Club Chairman Aziz Yildirim denied involvement in a soccer match-fixing scandal and criticized the leaking of his mug shots and other information to the press, according to a statement.
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Jailed Fenerbahce soccer club chairman Aziz Yildirim wrote to Turkish President Abdullah Gul, requesting that authorities release evidence against him in a match-fixing probe, Hurriyet newspaper said.
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Emerging-market stocks had their biggest advance in two weeks as Brazil gained on increased optimism about Vale SA’s performance.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country’s top soccer league has struggled with match fixing, said that perpetrators and not teams should be punished.
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Turkey’s benchmark ISE National 100 Index fell 0.1 percent to 58,749.33 at the close in Istanbul, its lowest level since Jan. 31.
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Fenerbahce, the Turkish soccer champion, led losses among publicly listed sports teams amid a match-fixing probe that’s threatening to strip the club of its 18th title, the most in the league’s history.
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