ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court jailed seven people pending trial on Wednesday as part of a major match-fixing investigation which has cast a shadow over the country’s multi-billion-dollar soccer league.

The seven suspects, including the former chairmen of Diyarbakirspor and Giresunspor, were sent to Metris jail in Istanbul overnight, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.

ISTANBUL, July 5 (Reuters) – Turkey’s football federation
said on Tuesday it will act swiftly in response to nationwide
match-fixing allegations, without waiting for the outcome of a
judicial investigation which emerged at the weekend.

Police have detained some 60 people, including the chairman
of champions Fenerbahce, since Sunday in a probe which has sent
shockwaves through Turkey, hit clubs’ share prices and triggered
uncertainty surrounding a multi-billion dollar league.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s football federation said on Tuesday it will act swiftly in response to nationwide match-fixing allegations, without waiting for the outcome of a judicial investigation which emerged at the weekend.

Police have detained some 60 people, including the chairman of champions Fenerbahce, since Sunday in a probe which has sent shockwaves through Turkey, hit clubs’ share prices and triggered uncertainty surrounding a multi-billion dollar league.

ISTANBUL, July 5 (Reuters) – Turkey’s football federation
said on Tuesday it will act swiftly in response to nationwide
match-fixing allegations, without waiting for the outcome of a
judicial investigation which emerged at the weekend.

Police have detained some 60 people, including the chairman
of champions Fenerbahce, since Sunday in a probe which has sent
shockwaves through Turkey, hit clubs’ share prices and triggered
uncertainty surrounding a multi-billion dollar league.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Sunday’s election has given Leyla Zana a fresh chance to voice her political vision for Turkey’s Kurds in parliament, 20 years after causing uproar when she spoke Kurdish at her first oath-swearing ceremony there.

The former Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who subsequently spent 10 years in jail convicted of links to Kurdish militants, is one of 36 Kurdish-backed candidates who won seats in the 550-seat assembly on Sunday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party was set to win Sunday’s parliamentary election with 50.2 percent of the vote, but looked unlikely to get enough seats to call a referendum on a planned new constitution.

A Muslim democracy and candidate for the European Union, Turkey has become an economic powerhouse and influential player on the global stage since Erdogan’s AK Party first swept to power in 2002.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turks began voting in an election on Sunday that is expected to return Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to office for a third consecutive term and could give him a mandate to rewrite the constitution.

A Muslim democracy and candidate for the European Union, Turkey has become an economic powerhouse and influential player on the global stage since Erdogan’s AK Party swept to power in 2002.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Official Turkish websites were attacked by Internet vigilante group Anonymous on Thursday as part of a protest against what it says is government Internet censorship.

With an election three days away, access to Turkey’s telecoms authority website, identified as a main target in the protest against a planned new Internet filtering system, was blocked as planned at 6 p.m. (1500 GMT).

ISTANBUL, June 9 (Reuters) – An official Turkish website
came under attack from Internet vigilante group Anonymous on
Thursday as part of a protest against what it says is government
Internet censorship.

With an election three days away, access to Turkey’s
telecoms authority website, identified as a main target in the
protest against a planned new Internet filtering system, was
blocked as planned at 6 p.m. (1500 GMT).

ISTANBUL, June 9 (Reuters) – With an election three days
away, Turkey prepared on Thursday for attacks on official
websites by Internet vigilante group Anonymous in a protest
against what it says is government Internet censorship.

Turkish hacker groups said they would counter attack the
grass-roots cyber group, which came to prominence last year with
a series of high-profile attacks.