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Resignations deepen rift among Turkish Islamists and country’s soccer crisis

Resignations deepen rift among Turkish Islamists and country’s soccer crisis

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Feb 01, 2012
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Fethullah Gulen

By James M. Dorsey

The Turkish Football Federation’s (TFF) three top managers have resigned in a move that appears to have deepened the rift between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkey’s powerful Islamic Gulen movement as well as the massive match-fixing crisis in Turkish soccer.

TFF chairman Mehmet Ali Ayindar and his vice chair…

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