The Turkish selection threatened to leave Eurobasket 2022 on Sunday, accusing Georgian police of assaulting their NBA winger Furkan Korkmaz in the halls of the Tbilisi hall where Turkey lost against Georgia (88-83) , said the vice-president of the Turkish Basketball Federation Omer Onan.
Three Georgia players involved?
“Let them show us the images from all the cameras in this hallway minute by minute, without missing a second. If they don’t, I have spoken to the president (of the Federation) Hidayet (Turkoglu), we will leave this tournament, ”says Omer Onan in a press release published in the evening on the site of the Turkish Federation (TBF) .
Philadelphia 76ers winger Furkan Korkmaz was attacked in the halls of the Tbilisi Arena after his exclusion in the middle of the last quarter, after a scuffle on the floor, according to the management of the Turkish team.
“When our player joined the locker room, three players from the Georgian national team as well as security personnel participated in a fight,” said assistant coach Hakan Demir at a press conference. ” This is unacceptable. »
“The official police of Georgia fought physically with us”, assures the vice-president of the TFB in his press release. “I don’t know anything, I haven’t heard anything about it,” Georgia coach Ilias Zouros told a press conference.