BELGRADE -- Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday gave a demarche to Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Kemal Bozay over the murder of a Serbian man in Istanbul.
Demarche to Turkish ambassador over death of Serbian man
BELGRADE -- Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday gave a demarche to Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Kemal Bozay over the murder of a Serbian man in Istanbul.
Source: Tanjug
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“We want the truth about this criminal act,” Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić told reporters, adding that the Turkish minister of sports will be at the airport in Istanbul on Saturday to escort the coffin with the body of the murdered Serbian fan.
Dačić noted that about a week ago Turkish fans attended a match in Belgrade where strong security measures were in place to ensure their safety.
Serbian Consul General in Istanbul Zoran Marković told Tanjug that the organization in Istanbul was very poor despite his warning to the authorities that it would be a high-risk match.
Ivković was stabbed to death on Friday evening near the sports arena in Istanbul that hosted the Euroleague match between the Serbian team and local Galatasaray.
According to the Serbian consul, Ivković was stabbed in the chest in a fight that broke out outside the Abdi Ipekci Arena.
The resuscitation attempts lasted five hours, but the young man died of severe blood loss despite all efforts of the Turkish medical team, said Marković.
"Urgent investigation"
In a telephone call to Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić on Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu expressed his condolences on the death of Crvena Zvezda supporter Marko Ivković (25).
The Serbian prime minister "voiced outrage at the despicable crime committed against a citizen of Serbia," the government's media cooperation office said in a release.
Serbia demands that the perpetrator be urgently found, arrested and most severely punished, said Vučić.
He told Davutoglu that "coach of the Galatasaray basketball club Ergin Ataman is not welcome in Serbia after the statement in which he accused the murdered young man and all Crvena Zvezda supporters of terrorism."
The Serbian prime minister stressed that only a few weeks ago Serbia welcomed a three times larger group of Besiktas fans and ensured their security in Belgrade.
Davutoglu expressed regret over the loss of a young life and promised that the Turkish authorities will do everything to find the perpetrator and bring them to justice, the release states.
Galatasaray fans attacked on Friday evening outside the Abdi Ipekci Arena a group of around 400 supporters of the Serbian team who arrived in Istanbul for the match.
They were unable to enter the arena as the organizer broke the agreement and prevented them from buying the tickets. This triggered fan violence and incidents outside the arena and forced the police to intervene.
The Turkish hooligans threw stones and flares at Crvena Zvezda fans, and one of them inflicted the fatal wounds that killed Ivković.
Protest
Around 1,000 people lit candles in the church of St. Mark on Saturday evening and paid their silent respects to Marko Ivković.
Crvena Zvezda President Nebojsa Čović and Sports Director Davor Ristović, as well as former coach of the Crvena Zvezda football club Vladan Lukić attended the vigil.
Those gathered headed towards the Turkish embassy of but the police prevented them from coming too close to the building, Tanjug said.
They held a protest nearby over the murder while he was trying to move away from the conflicts in which he did not take part.
The protesters held pictures of the murdered youth and a banner with his name, sang Crvena Zvezda fan songs and "Tamo Daleko", a traditional Serbian song from the period of World War I, and chants in support of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.
The protest passed off without any incidents, and an hour later the plane with the body of Marko Ivković landed at the Belgrade airport.
His family took over the body in the presence of Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovičić and Nebojša Čović.
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
Of course we chant and hopefully one day we will do more than just chant, you shouldnt be talking about feeling provocated, you feel provocated by t-shirts every Vidovdan or did you already forget about that? By the way dont give me that crap when we both know that you would have chanted exactly the same, if not worse against us in Tirana. What the hell did u expect, for us to greet you with flowers?
(Daniel, 25 November 2014 19:03)
Serbian Sons continue to die. First I don't understand why the Serbian government does not impose a travel ban to hostile countries of Serbia. Why does Serbian government continue with diplomatic relations with hostile nations? The world is very large and many friendly nations out there to have peacefull and positive relations with. Lets not forget the evil and hatred that is out there in the world. USA, England and Germany created the massive world wide demonizing hate campaign against Serbian people which is still very effective as we can all see. Put bluntly the USA, England and Germany have put a target on every Serbian's head, a open season for any body who wants to destroy us. This what I write to you my brothers is a fact, In USA, England and Germany no tears for the spilling of Serbian blood! Today Serbian borders need to be reinforced for maximum resistence to the evil invaders. As we all can see today Czar Vlade is on top with great authority facing down the greatest enemies of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. We Serbian people in these times of difficulty must avoid traveling where we should not be and avoid socializing with who we should not be. Serbian government in my opinion is wasting time on diplomatic relations with countries and nations who have been hostile to Serbia for ages. Nothing good will come to Serbia from associating with evil and hatefull people. Thank God the world is large with many friendly and peacefull people for Serbia to associate with.
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 24 November 2014 20:15)
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
Funny you mention this but please do tell us what albos chant every feb 18 about Serbs? I am sure they are really nice friendly things. How bout you remind us what you albos chanted during the match vs Italy about Serbia? Again some very nice messages right?
And fabric causing chaos? What about Vidovdan when albo cops made Serbs take off their Serbian shirts and ditch their Serbian flags?
Anyways the world knows you albos are sick and twisted idiots so this picture really does not surprise anyone.
He told Davutoglu that "coach of the Galatasaray basketball club Ergin Ataman is not welcome in Serbia after the statement in which he accused the murdered young man and all Crvena Zvezda supporters of terrorism."
"They were unable to enter the arena as the organizer broke the agreement and prevented them from buying the tickets. This triggered fan violence and incidents outside the arena and forced the police to intervene."
To sum up: They were not supporters of terrorism, but 'only' violent hooligans who caused incidence after not being allowed to attend the match.
(Comm. Parrisson, 24 November 2014 16:28)
"Hey #Kris , because you are not well informed about happenings in Serbia while our match with Albania you should shut up!
First of all, they started it first by flying theirs flag over the field which was insulting for us Serbs and Serbia. If they didn't done that nothing following wouldn't happen'.
And that doesn't anything to do with the fact that Turkish people killed one of our own. Did we kill any of Albanian or Turkish supporters of their club? no,we didn't!"
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
What a very sad incident to happen. Sport should not have politics and religion involved , but be enjoyed for the spectacular event shame on you people for your comments from both side .
(sasa p, 24 November 2014 14:54)
Hey #Kris , because you are not well informed about happenings in Serbia while our match with Albania you should shut up!
First of all, they started it first by flying theirs flag over the field which was insulting for us Serbs and Serbia. If they didn't done that nothing following wouldn't happen'.
And that doesn't anything to do with the fact that Turkish people killed one of our own. Did we kill any of Albanian or Turkish supporters of their club? no,we didn't!
Maybe you think we are hooligans, but we just protect ourselves,and people form our country as there was enough murders and bad luck in our country in 2014. and so far.
If you think that incident that happened while Serbia:Albania match was good because we got a little bit of our medicine you are wrong. But is a mans life a price for that!
Turkish supporters should be banned from Serbia and Serbians from Turkey!
get informed first before judging and talking online about stuff you are not informed!
(Misfit, 24 November 2014 14:33)
One more incident that proves that the islamic state of turkey is a third world state that belongs in the middle east. They should stay there, where they belong.
of course, albanians enjoyed this murder. However, they should know that what goes around, comes around.
(scepticism, 24 November 2014 13:11)
Serbs having a taste of their own medicine I guess... Just a month ago you attacked Albanian players on the field and screamed "KILL ALBANIANS, KILL ALBANIANS" and "Kill the croat so that the Albanians won't have any brother", Ivan Bogdanov being in the middle of the field while the police were just watching etc etc. There are many other examples of serbs showing "high cultural level" during sport activities. So for serbs to criticize others is like Hitler criticizing ISIS for being to cruel. You need look at your own backyard first...
(Kriss, 24 November 2014 13:06)
Serbs having a taste of their own medicine I guess... Just a month ago you attacked Albanian players on the field and screamed "KILL ALBANIANS, KILL ALBANIANS" and "Kill the croat so that the Albanians won't have any brother", Ivan Bogdanov being in the middle of the field while the police were just watching etc etc. There are many other examples of serbs showing "high cultural level" during sport activities. So for serbs to criticize others is like Hitler criticizing ISIS for being to cruel. You need look at your own backyard first...
(Kriss, 24 November 2014 13:06)
One more incident that proves that the islamic state of turkey is a third world state that belongs in the middle east. They should stay there, where they belong.
of course, albanians enjoyed this murder. However, they should know that what goes around, comes around.
(scepticism, 24 November 2014 13:11)
"Hey #Kris , because you are not well informed about happenings in Serbia while our match with Albania you should shut up!
First of all, they started it first by flying theirs flag over the field which was insulting for us Serbs and Serbia. If they didn't done that nothing following wouldn't happen'.
And that doesn't anything to do with the fact that Turkish people killed one of our own. Did we kill any of Albanian or Turkish supporters of their club? no,we didn't!"
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
Serbian Sons continue to die. First I don't understand why the Serbian government does not impose a travel ban to hostile countries of Serbia. Why does Serbian government continue with diplomatic relations with hostile nations? The world is very large and many friendly nations out there to have peacefull and positive relations with. Lets not forget the evil and hatred that is out there in the world. USA, England and Germany created the massive world wide demonizing hate campaign against Serbian people which is still very effective as we can all see. Put bluntly the USA, England and Germany have put a target on every Serbian's head, a open season for any body who wants to destroy us. This what I write to you my brothers is a fact, In USA, England and Germany no tears for the spilling of Serbian blood! Today Serbian borders need to be reinforced for maximum resistence to the evil invaders. As we all can see today Czar Vlade is on top with great authority facing down the greatest enemies of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. We Serbian people in these times of difficulty must avoid traveling where we should not be and avoid socializing with who we should not be. Serbian government in my opinion is wasting time on diplomatic relations with countries and nations who have been hostile to Serbia for ages. Nothing good will come to Serbia from associating with evil and hatefull people. Thank God the world is large with many friendly and peacefull people for Serbia to associate with.
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 24 November 2014 20:15)
What a very sad incident to happen. Sport should not have politics and religion involved , but be enjoyed for the spectacular event shame on you people for your comments from both side .
(sasa p, 24 November 2014 14:54)
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
Funny you mention this but please do tell us what albos chant every feb 18 about Serbs? I am sure they are really nice friendly things. How bout you remind us what you albos chanted during the match vs Italy about Serbia? Again some very nice messages right?
And fabric causing chaos? What about Vidovdan when albo cops made Serbs take off their Serbian shirts and ditch their Serbian flags?
Anyways the world knows you albos are sick and twisted idiots so this picture really does not surprise anyone.
Hey #Kris , because you are not well informed about happenings in Serbia while our match with Albania you should shut up!
First of all, they started it first by flying theirs flag over the field which was insulting for us Serbs and Serbia. If they didn't done that nothing following wouldn't happen'.
And that doesn't anything to do with the fact that Turkish people killed one of our own. Did we kill any of Albanian or Turkish supporters of their club? no,we didn't!
Maybe you think we are hooligans, but we just protect ourselves,and people form our country as there was enough murders and bad luck in our country in 2014. and so far.
If you think that incident that happened while Serbia:Albania match was good because we got a little bit of our medicine you are wrong. But is a mans life a price for that!
Turkish supporters should be banned from Serbia and Serbians from Turkey!
get informed first before judging and talking online about stuff you are not informed!
(Misfit, 24 November 2014 14:33)
He told Davutoglu that "coach of the Galatasaray basketball club Ergin Ataman is not welcome in Serbia after the statement in which he accused the murdered young man and all Crvena Zvezda supporters of terrorism."
"They were unable to enter the arena as the organizer broke the agreement and prevented them from buying the tickets. This triggered fan violence and incidents outside the arena and forced the police to intervene."
To sum up: They were not supporters of terrorism, but 'only' violent hooligans who caused incidence after not being allowed to attend the match.
(Comm. Parrisson, 24 November 2014 16:28)
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
Of course we chant and hopefully one day we will do more than just chant, you shouldnt be talking about feeling provocated, you feel provocated by t-shirts every Vidovdan or did you already forget about that? By the way dont give me that crap when we both know that you would have chanted exactly the same, if not worse against us in Tirana. What the hell did u expect, for us to greet you with flowers?
(Daniel, 25 November 2014 19:03)
Serbs having a taste of their own medicine I guess... Just a month ago you attacked Albanian players on the field and screamed "KILL ALBANIANS, KILL ALBANIANS" and "Kill the croat so that the Albanians won't have any brother", Ivan Bogdanov being in the middle of the field while the police were just watching etc etc. There are many other examples of serbs showing "high cultural level" during sport activities. So for serbs to criticize others is like Hitler criticizing ISIS for being to cruel. You need look at your own backyard first...
(Kriss, 24 November 2014 13:06)
One more incident that proves that the islamic state of turkey is a third world state that belongs in the middle east. They should stay there, where they belong.
of course, albanians enjoyed this murder. However, they should know that what goes around, comes around.
(scepticism, 24 November 2014 13:11)
"Hey #Kris , because you are not well informed about happenings in Serbia while our match with Albania you should shut up!
First of all, they started it first by flying theirs flag over the field which was insulting for us Serbs and Serbia. If they didn't done that nothing following wouldn't happen'.
And that doesn't anything to do with the fact that Turkish people killed one of our own. Did we kill any of Albanian or Turkish supporters of their club? no,we didn't!"
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
Hey #Kris , because you are not well informed about happenings in Serbia while our match with Albania you should shut up!
First of all, they started it first by flying theirs flag over the field which was insulting for us Serbs and Serbia. If they didn't done that nothing following wouldn't happen'.
And that doesn't anything to do with the fact that Turkish people killed one of our own. Did we kill any of Albanian or Turkish supporters of their club? no,we didn't!
Maybe you think we are hooligans, but we just protect ourselves,and people form our country as there was enough murders and bad luck in our country in 2014. and so far.
If you think that incident that happened while Serbia:Albania match was good because we got a little bit of our medicine you are wrong. But is a mans life a price for that!
Turkish supporters should be banned from Serbia and Serbians from Turkey!
get informed first before judging and talking online about stuff you are not informed!
(Misfit, 24 November 2014 14:33)
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
Of course we chant and hopefully one day we will do more than just chant, you shouldnt be talking about feeling provocated, you feel provocated by t-shirts every Vidovdan or did you already forget about that? By the way dont give me that crap when we both know that you would have chanted exactly the same, if not worse against us in Tirana. What the hell did u expect, for us to greet you with flowers?
(Daniel, 25 November 2014 19:03)
He told Davutoglu that "coach of the Galatasaray basketball club Ergin Ataman is not welcome in Serbia after the statement in which he accused the murdered young man and all Crvena Zvezda supporters of terrorism."
"They were unable to enter the arena as the organizer broke the agreement and prevented them from buying the tickets. This triggered fan violence and incidents outside the arena and forced the police to intervene."
To sum up: They were not supporters of terrorism, but 'only' violent hooligans who caused incidence after not being allowed to attend the match.
(Comm. Parrisson, 24 November 2014 16:28)
Serbian Sons continue to die. First I don't understand why the Serbian government does not impose a travel ban to hostile countries of Serbia. Why does Serbian government continue with diplomatic relations with hostile nations? The world is very large and many friendly nations out there to have peacefull and positive relations with. Lets not forget the evil and hatred that is out there in the world. USA, England and Germany created the massive world wide demonizing hate campaign against Serbian people which is still very effective as we can all see. Put bluntly the USA, England and Germany have put a target on every Serbian's head, a open season for any body who wants to destroy us. This what I write to you my brothers is a fact, In USA, England and Germany no tears for the spilling of Serbian blood! Today Serbian borders need to be reinforced for maximum resistence to the evil invaders. As we all can see today Czar Vlade is on top with great authority facing down the greatest enemies of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. We Serbian people in these times of difficulty must avoid traveling where we should not be and avoid socializing with who we should not be. Serbian government in my opinion is wasting time on diplomatic relations with countries and nations who have been hostile to Serbia for ages. Nothing good will come to Serbia from associating with evil and hatefull people. Thank God the world is large with many friendly and peacefull people for Serbia to associate with.
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 24 November 2014 20:15)
35,000+ fans chanted 'Kill, Kill Albanians and Croats'. Your fans and security apparatus attacked the Albanian national team. And, you have the decency to claim that a flag insulted you as if that absolves you of your barbaric ways?!
Is the IQ level of so many Serbs that low that a piece of fabric can cause such chaos????!!!
I hope it's not.
(cry me a river, 24 November 2014 16:17)
Funny you mention this but please do tell us what albos chant every feb 18 about Serbs? I am sure they are really nice friendly things. How bout you remind us what you albos chanted during the match vs Italy about Serbia? Again some very nice messages right?
And fabric causing chaos? What about Vidovdan when albo cops made Serbs take off their Serbian shirts and ditch their Serbian flags?
Anyways the world knows you albos are sick and twisted idiots so this picture really does not surprise anyone.
What a very sad incident to happen. Sport should not have politics and religion involved , but be enjoyed for the spectacular event shame on you people for your comments from both side .
(sasa p, 24 November 2014 14:54)