The president of a top European club has revealed he could pull the team out of its current league after rival fans attacked his players on the field this past weekend.
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On Sunday, horrible scenes from Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor in the Turkish Super Lig cast a dark shadow on the country's football after supporters rushed the field at the Papara Park to violently attack the away team's players.
This followed Fenerbahce's dramatic late winner, scored in the 87th minute by former Chelsea forward Michy Batshuayi.
An emergency meeting was held by club officials immediately following the unprecedented event, in which they agreed to call an Extraordinary General Assembly, which is scheduled for 2 April.
It is there where members of Fenerbahce's hierarchy will meet to discuss whether or not the Yellow Canaries will continue in the Turkish Super Lig, as revealed by club president Ali Y. Koc, who has already resigned from the Clubs Union Foundation of Turkey.
"We are going to an Extraordinary General Assembly. As Fenerbahce, we have to draw our own fate, our own future. We are going to the General Assembly on April 2. The call was just made. We are going to an Extraordinary General Assembly and hopefully, with God's permission, we need to do what we need to do. We need to cut our own ties because this will continue like this. We would like to thank our President and Ministers for his intervention after the events took place yesterday. God bless them, they intervened in every process after the events and made us feel comfortable," Koc said in a statement, according to Inside World Football.
"However, they should not have intervened and the local authorities should have provided the necessary environment. By taking the necessary security measures, putting the police there and conducting a body search. Therefore, yesterday's events need to be viewed differently from a bigger window. These are not events that will happen in any Fenerbahce Trabzon match. Even after the league conflict between 1995 and 1996, when tensions reached their peak, there had never been such violence and hatred.
"We will not accept this treatment in our own country. We have said many times that we do not. Again and again, we shout out what is happening in Turkish football; We shout loudly about betting, match-fixing, unfair competition and referees. You see the point where things have come. We will now cut our ties ourselves. If necessary, we will be relegated to a lower league. When you make this decision, relegation to a lower league is already in question. Because we will die one day rather than die every day, but we have to save our future. We'll play for a year and leave, but everyone will come to their senses and that's enough. That's literally enough."
It is believed that 12 arrests were made after the incident as Fenerbahce players "were forced to protect themselves" from kicks and punches that were thrown at them.
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has since called for the perpetrators to be held accountable for their actions.
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