Istanbul, Oct 10: England soccer fans deported from Turkey. Two days ahead of the Turkey-England Euro2004 qualification game, two fans were deported from Istanbul on Thursday (October 9) without even leaving the airport. They arrived on an aircraft from Manchester in England and were held at Ataturk airport, then sent back home. They denied being hooligans, saying that they were tourists. Turkey's Anatolian news agency said the two men's names were on a British police list of 1,500 known hooligans.


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