Ferhat Gündoğdu defends recording: I gave advice

Central Referee Committee (MHK) Chair Ferhat Gündoğdu, arrested in the Referees File investigation, said of his recorded call with referee Kerem Ersoy: "I did not threaten him, I gave him advice."

In his prosecutorial statement, Gündoğdu defended the conversation in which he said Ersoy was "doing things" and told him to shape up or quit. It was recorded that he said Ersoy had called to ask why he was not being assigned matches.

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