ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey accused Icelandic officials on Monday of showing disrespect to its visiting soccer team, after players said they were kept waiting at passport control for three hours and had their bags searched. "The disrespect shown to our national team in Iceland is unacceptable and what is necessary will be done," President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, wrote on Twitter. Turkey's embassy in Oslo sent a diplomatic note to Iceland's government protesting at the "disrespect" shown to the team. Iceland's players went through the same procedure when they arrived home from Turkey's Konya airport five years ago, he added. It is currently leading Group H, followed by France then Iceland, which beat Albania 1-0 at home on Saturday.

Source: The Star June 10, 2019 12:00 UTC