Ibrahim Ethem Haciosmanoglu
President Ibrahim Ethem Haciosmanoglu of Trabzonspor Footbal Club has been banned for 280 days, while several board members also received hefty suspensions, Mirror Online reports.
Trabzonspor officials was handed lengthy bans by the Turkish Football Federation after a referee was locked in the stadium following
their draw against Gaziantepspor last week.
Match official Cagatay Sahan opted not to award the hosts a late penalty in the match, angering president Ibrahim Ethem Haciosmanoglu.
He subsequently ordered the referee and his assistants be locked in the stadium, before president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan told him to let them go.
"I told stadium security not to let the referees leave until the morning, until I arrived, but a very important person called me and asked me not to cause embarrassment in Turkey and around the world," Haciosmanoglu told the Dogan news agency at the time.
He then said in another statement on the club's official website that he took the action for the officials' own safety.
The statement, on Tuesday, read: "Our goal was to protect the referees from the crowd in Trabzon. We also arranged for the referees to leave the city without any problems."
The Turkish Football Federation has banned Haciosmanoglu for 280 days from carrying out his official duties, and fined him £34,250.
Two club directors have been given 410-day bans, while six other officials were suspended for a year. All eight were fined between £45,000 and £60,000.
Another official, Suleyman Hurma, was banned for 21 days and forced to pay £5,700, while Trabzonspor have been ordered to play two matches behind closed doors.
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