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“It was said that he was a stray bullet, that he was in the air for pleasure!”

Article by Eduard Apostol – published on Saturday, May 10, 2025, 01:45 / Updated on Saturday, May 10, 2025 01:46

Mehmet Topal, Oil Coachhe remembered a terrible episode a decade ago, in which he was in the car he was driving in Istanbul! Those from Fener cataloged the situation as a “terrorist act” at that time, President Erdogan gathered all the captains of the superlig.

Mehmet Topal, 39, reinvigorated Ploiești Petrol and is waiting for the stage with Galați Steel on Monday, on “Ilie Oană”. The prahoveni even came to fight for the first places in the play-out.

Mehmet Topal now amuses by the 2015 attack: “the bullet was in the car”

Mehmet Topal offered an extenso interview exclusively for the Sports Gazette in which he talked about both his future plans and various moments in his career.

Including the one in which life was endangered. It happened almost a decade ago, in August 2015, when he was one of Fenerbahce's leaders, one of Turkey's elite groups. At that time, the car in which the former footballer was located was attacked by individuals armed in Istanbul! Fortunately, he, and the teammate who was with him, Uygar Mert Zeybek, escaped only the scared.

According to the BBC, the respective ones pulled in the car, a bullet hit the windshield, but it was not able to pierce it due to the armor of the vehicle!

“At that time, I missed winning the championship. Before that moment, it was fired in the team's bus, as well as the Turks, we know where we grew up, we are accustomed. We can overcome such situations. But the foreigners from Fener have lost all their concentration, they wanted to leave the team to protect their families.

From the day the bus was attacked, I lost any chance at the championship. Then, the incident with the car in which I was … It was said that I was not a target, that it was a stray bullet. That someone pulled in the air, for pleasure, and came in the car … (laughs) he got into the car.

(Are you scared?) No, no, I know myself very well. I can adapt in such difficult situations, I was just scared not to happen to my colleague.

AAA, and the wife, and the child were scared when they found out, “Mehmet Topal told the Sports Gazette.

81of selections and two goals gathered Mehmet Topal for Turkish national

The Turkish championship was suspended for a week, President Erdogan also intervened

The incident with Mehmet Topal took place in a district in eastern Istanbul. Later, Fenerbahce described the attack as an “armed terrorist act”. The causes of this attack remained unknown. It was not an isolated incident. At the beginning of 2015, the team's bus was attacked and fired in the city of Trabzon, hurting the driver!

After the incident, the Turkish championship was suspended for a week. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a supporter of Fenerbahce, convened an emergency meeting with the 18 captains from the championship teams to discuss the situation.

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