In recent years, a troubling pattern has emerged across Turkish football: clubs drowning in debt have begun to reinvent themselves through the creation of new legal entities, name changes and the superficial appearance of fresh starts, leaving behind substantial financial obligations. While this phenomenon has often gone unchallenged domestically, recent decisions by the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) and the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, subsequently upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), indicate that international football governance bodies are no longer turning a blind eye.
 

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