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Turkey arrests football refereeing chief over corruption allegations

Rank
Ran
15h
Updated
6d ago
Closed
Outlets
7
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
5

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Bianet Turkey · English 29 Sept, 09:23 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Nederlands (1) · العربية (1) · فارسی (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 19 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Bianet, 29 Sept, 09:23 UTC.
  2. Second country: Afghanistan, with Afghanistan International.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Afghanistan International.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 29 Sept, 11:48 UTC.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

19 of 19 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

29%14%29%28%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 28%

First movers

  1. Bianet 29 Sept, 09:23 UTC
  2. Afghanistan International +2h 25m
  3. Al Sharq +2h 40m
  4. Der Standard +3h 20m
  5. Punch +7h 47m

Last to join

  1. Het Laatste Nieuws 30 Sept, 04:06 UTC
  2. Citizen Digital 29 Sept, 19:42 UTC
  3. Punch 29 Sept, 17:10 UTC
  4. Der Standard 29 Sept, 12:42 UTC
  5. Al Sharq 29 Sept, 12:03 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Kenya, Nigeria. Asia-Pacific 1: Afghanistan. Europe 2: Austria, Belgium. Middle East 2: Qatar, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, German, English, Persian, Dutch.
Timeline
Earliest article Bianet, 29 Sept 2026, 09:23 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 12:10 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 04:06 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Turkey. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 225 5.58 6 6 6 6 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 12:10 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 04:06 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Citizen Digital Kenya 29 Sept, 19:42 UTC
    Turkey arrests president of football refereeing body
  • Punch Nigeria 29 Sept, 17:10 UTC
    Turkey arrests refereeing chief, six others over fraud

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Afghanistan International Afghanistan 29 Sept, 11:48 UTC
    رئیس و شش عضو هیأت مرکزی داوران فوتبال ترکیه بازداشت شدند

Europe 2 outlets

  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 30 Sept, 04:06 UTC
    “We blijven strijden voor eerlijk voetbal”: Turkse scheidsrechtersbaas (en zes anderen) opgepakt op verdenking van corruptie
  • Der Standard Austria 29 Sept, 12:42 UTC
    Razzien und Festnahmen bei türkischen Referees

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Al Sharq Qatar 29 Sept, 12:03 UTC
    القبض على رئيس لجنة حكام كرة القدم في تركيا بسبب المراهنة
  • Bianet Turkey 29 Sept, 09:23 UTC
    Turkey's football refereeing chief detained over exam interference, favoritism allegations
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