Istanbul football derby postponed over 'serious' threat
Source: AFP
Istanbul (AFP) - A derby between bitter Istanbul rivals Galatasaray and Fenerbahce was postponed Sunday over a "serious" threat, authorities said, a day after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish city killed four people.
"The football match was postponed in light of serious information" pointing to the risk of an attack, the local governor's office said in a statement less than two hours before kick-off.
The governor took the decision following a meeting with sporting authorities, news channels CNN-Turk and NTV said.
Spectators had already started arriving for the game at Galatasaray's Turk Telecom Arena on the European side of the Bosphorus when the decision was announced and they were asked to leave the ground.
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