MOSCOW, Sep 5 Philadelphia 76ers NBA and national team defenseman Turkey Furkan Korkmaz said that during the match of the European Basketball Championship with the Georgian national team, he was attacked by several players of the Georgian team and security officers. On Sunday, the Turkish national team lost to the Georgian team in Tbilisi following two overtimes at the EuroBasket group stage with a score of 83:88. 4 minutes 48 seconds before the end of the fourth quarter, Korkmaz and Duda Sanadze got into a fight after a foul on a Philadelphia basketball player. Both players were disqualified, however, according to representatives of the Turkish national team, after that, Korkmaz was attacked in a room under the stands by Georgian basketball players Tornike Shengelia, Gogi Bitadze and Sanadze. The Turkish national team threatened to withdraw from the EuroBasket if they were not provided with surveillance footage of the incident with a fight. «Two Georgian players and security attacked us on the way to the locker room. Five people ran up and attacked, we defended. Something more could have happened. «Even now what is happening is unacceptable. No one can talk to me like that, anyone who does will get their answer. There is such a vulnerability in such an organization and it is very wrong to turn a blind eye to it. During the fight, everything was very difficult to understand. There were players from the Georgian national team and guards. The guards did not try to separate us, they had not the best intentions. I did not see if there were still fans there,» Fanatik quotes Korkmaz.
