Greek Cypriot Hooligans Attacked Galatasaray Women Volleyballers

The Greek Cypriots once again demonstrated their fanaticism last night. An incident broke out at the women’s volleyball match played last night between Turkish team Galatasaray and Greek Cypriot team Apollon Limassol, in Limassol.
Greek Cypriot police was forced to use truncheons and pepper spray against Greek Cypriot hooligans who rained bottles, cigarette lighters and other items on the Galatasaray team which defeated the Greek Cypriot team 3-0.
The Greek Cypriot supporters has also chanted anti-Turkish slogans throughout the whole game and had open huge banners and Greek flags with “Cyprus is Greek” written on them.
The Galatasaray women’s volleyball team was forced to abandon the court with a police escort following the attack
Greek Cypriot police took tight security measures around the hotel the Turkish team was staying at.


Yesterday, the match of "The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) Cup" which was played between Galatasaray Ladies Volleyball team and South Cyprus side Apollon Limassol teams, have been harmful aspect of events that was ended with full of sadness.
The people who caused those harmful events tried to throw things to the playing ground such as toilet covers, spouts, sound bombs, seats etc. and showed an example of damaging the brothership of all colours, religions and ethnic groups that comes from historical past lived inside as a deep depression.

We castigate those attackings that made to our team, technical crew and ultrAslan Cyprus represantation and we wish to add that we will be together with them in any case, any situation.

The emblem that has been carrying by our players, our crescent and star flag are our prides and honours.

Just happened yesterday, today we wish to add that there is no hesitation that we will respond and reflex to those mentalities whether there can be any attackings to our holy symbols, to our players, to our supporters.

Do not try to test our patience, even we buried our war axes; we didn't forget where they are...!

Oğuz Altay
UltrAslan General Coordinator