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Disqualified from refereeing due to being gay, Halil İbrahim Dinçdağ has won the lawsuit for material and non-material damages against the Turkey Football Association.

The hearing of Halil İbrahim Dinçdağ - Turkey’s first openly declared gay referee who was restrained from his profession - continued yesterday with a designated expert report saying that homosexuality was quite common among athletes and referees.