EuroBasket 2022 took a strange turn on Sunday when Georgia beat Turkey in double overtime. Turkish officials say Furkan Korkmaz was attacked by Georgian players near his locker room after being ejected from the match, and the federation threatened to leave the tournament if it did not receive security footage of the incident. ing.
In the middle of the fourth quarter, Korkmaz faced Georgia’s Duda Sanadze. The two players butted heads and exchanged words before being separated by other players and officials. Both players were quickly ejected from the game as fans began throwing cups onto the court.
This should have solved the problem, but the trouble continued off the court. In addition to the alleged attack on Korkamaz, Turkish officials have alleged that dozens of Georgian police, who were at a match in Tbilisi, continued their violence after the match.
Full comment here Turkish Federation Vice President Omer Onan said:
“As Furkan Korkmaz was walking down the hallway to the locker room with our trainers, Georgian players who were not on the active roster were met with the ejected player (Duda Sanadze) and the police. attacked him with.You shouldn’t attack a player”It goes to the locker room. At the end of the game, 30 police officers each drove us into a fight. We are the official police of Georgia I called out to FIBA, and I told the FIBA officials, “They either deceive themselves or think we’re stupid. They bring us every minute of every camera footage without missing anything.If those cameras don’t come to us, we’re leaving this tournament.”
“Everywhere I look there is nothing to hold on to. The non-competitor Shengelia and the three people sitting on the bench went to the locker room. They were in front.” Maybe they were protecting us, but they were always pushing us.
And from Turkey’s assistant coach Hakan Demir, who told the media about head coach Elgin Ataman also being ejected from the game:
“Today the Georgian players and some security guards in the hallway disrespected us. We came here to play basketball and nothing else. So everything is on the court. “I should have stayed but unfortunately there was a big scandal off the court. Things like that.” “There was going to be a basketball game today, but unfortunately more than basketball happened. Georgia. There are still two games left, but unfortunately what happened in the hallway today was against the spirit of sport.” did. ”
“We had a basketball game on the court with two overtime. Sometimes we played well and sometimes Georgia played well, but after our player Furkan Korkmaz was disqualified. , a player from three opposing teams attacked him in the hallway, and a security guard attacked our player: “We came here to play basketball, not the box. We are very concerned about the security vulnerabilities we have created and will follow up on this issue as well.”
Additionally, Turkey filed an official protest of the game, claiming that 22 seconds had mysteriously gone off the clock in an incident between Korkumaz and Sanadze. It is worth noting that he recorded the game-tying layup with two seconds remaining.
