Turkish football club MKE Ankaragucu have defended their former president Faruk Koca as being the “target of one-sided public ...

Former MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca received a prison sentence of over three years for assaulting referee Halil Umut Meler during a soccer match. The incident, occurring after a tie with Caykur ...

Faruk Koca and three other defendants have received suspended prison sentences ranging from 15 months to over five years.

(More Football News) MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca punched referee Halil Umut Meler in the face after the final whistle of a 1-1 draw in a Super Lig game against Caykur Rizespor last year.

The former president of Turkey’s Ankaragücü Faruk Koca was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for attacking referee ...

A former high-ranking Turkish soccer executive was handed down a lengthy prison sentence on Monday in the aftermath of his ...

Faruk Koca, president of Ankaragucu, throws a punch at referee Halil Umut Meler after the Turkish Super Lig match between Ankaragucu and Rizespor at Eryaman Stadium in Ankara, Turkiye on Dec. 11, 2023 ...

Faruk Koca had entered the pitch and confronted referee Halil Umut Meler and struck him with a right hook to the face last year. He was later arrested and given a permanent football ban for the ...

A Turkish court on Monday sentenced a former top-flight soccer club executive to more than three and a half years in prison for attacking a referee on the field at the end of a league game last season ...

A Turkish court sentenced a former top-flight football club executive to more than three and a half years in prison on Monday for attacking a referee ...

Former Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca punched referee Halil Umut Meler in the face after the final whistle of a 1-1 draw in a Super Lig game against Caykur Rizespor last year. Meler, who fell to ...