Turkey elects head amid match-fixing storm

Demiroren, the chairman of Istanbul club Besiktas, was elected by 221 out of 229 delegates who voted at the TFF meeting less than a month after previous chairman Mehmet Ali Aydinlar resigned in frustration at his failure to draw a line under the affair.

An Istanbul court is currently trying 93 defendants, including the chairman of champions Fenerbahce Aziz Yildirim, on charges of rigging more than a dozen matches.

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