The Turkish authorities announced today that its soccer team Fenerbahce will travel for an away game on Saturday without her fanssome of whom chanted last Saturday calling on the government to step down after the devastating earthquake of February 6.

“Lies, cheating, it’s been 20 years, quit!” shouted the fans of the Istanbul team during a league match with Konyaspor.

Today, a security committee in the central province of Kayseri (Caesarea) announced, without mentioning these anti-government slogans, that no Fenerbahce fans can attend the stadium in the match scheduled for next Saturday against the local team Kayserispor, as part of the 24th matchday of the Turkish league.

The Istanbul club, second in the Turkish league standings behind Galatasaray, denounced in a statement an “unacceptable” decision, calling on the authorities to review it.

The Turkish government is heavily criticized for the slow pace of aid in the first days after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which killed more than 44,000 people in the south and southeast of the country.

On Sunday, fans of Besiktas, another major club in Istanbul, also called for the resignation of the government with slogans from the stands.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday apologized to the residents of Antiyaman province (southeast), one of the worst-hit Turkish provinces since the devastating February 6 earthquake, attributing delays in the arrival of aid to “the destructiveness of the tremors and bad weather conditions ».