Fenerbahce boss links soccer match-fixing case to Turkey corruption probe


CANNES (Reuters) - Fenerbahce chairman Aziz Yildirim said on Monday his latest 38-month prison sentence over a match-fixing scandal was politically motivated, linking it to a corruption scandal shaking the Turkish government.

"As I said from the very beginning, the court case regarding match fixing in Turkey is a political case, and the ruling of this case has also been made politically," Yildirim told Reuters in an interview conducted in France.

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