Turkish Football Star Can't Stay Outta Trouble

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Sözcü Newspaper, 12 October 2018)

//Ed. Note: Arda Turan, probably Turkey's best 
footballer, used to play with Lionel Messi at 
Barcelona. He is now with Başakşehir in 
Istanbul and regularly gets in some kind of
trouble.//


            Bad-boy Arda and the Berkay's.

The fight between Turkish football star Arda Turan and pop
singer Berkay has dropped like a bombshell on Turkey's
agenda.  Turan head-butted Berkay, breaking the latter's nose.

Turan, whose wife is 8.5 months pregnant, went to a
nightclub in the Emirgan section of Istanbul, where Berkay
and his wife Özlem Şahin were sitting at the next table.
When Berkay left the table, Turan went over and said to
his wife "You're so beautiful. If I were a bachelor I
wouldn't miss the chance to get you."

After Özlem hanım told Berkay about this, Berkay
confronted Arda, who head-butted Berkay.  With his
nose broken, Berkay was taken to a hospital.  Turan
followed him to the hospital with a gun, which he
offered to Berkay, saying "if you don't believe I didn't
do it, then shoot me!"  Turan then fired some shots at
the ceiling but claimed it was accidental. (!)

After a giving a statement for 3 hours at the police
station, Turan was released.  Meanwhile, Berkay's
doctor said that the broken nose may affect Berkay's
singing career.


Emirgan is on the European side of the Bosphorus.