The Turkish Super Lig will resume on June 12th, according to the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) President Nihat Ozdemir.
A statement released by Ozdemir said: "We are experiencing one of the most challenging periods in human history.
"The coronavirus epidemic that has emerged in China has surrounded the world and continues to be effective even after five months.
"We are getting better every day in our fight against the pandemic. However, we must continue our way without giving up the measures and never leaving the struggle.
"Turkish football was also affected by this process. With the decisions taken by our state, we are among the countries that took measures in sport in the fastest way.
"We played our matches without spectators after the first cases seen in Turkey on March 11, we stopped our league after the first fatal cases.
"Thank God that there was no virus on our pitches at that time.
"As we have strictly complied with the decisions of our state, our Health Board carried out very important work for returning to football.
"A protocol containing all the precautions was prepared to play football. We shared the first part of this with the public, and we will announce the competition phase to our clubs and the public as soon as possible.
"For now, we have decided to start our postponed Super League, TFF 1st League, 2nd League, 3rd League and Regional Amateur Leagues in the week of June 12-13-14, even though we have different scenarios.
"The Ministry of Health and the Scientific Committee will decide how and under which conditions the competitions will be played.
"In this process, we will inform all our clubs about the principles that will emerge at the end of the process, which includes the evaluations made by the Science Board together with our Health Board.
"Hopefully we will complete our leagues in the best way at the end of July, we will give our trophies on the field and we will crown the season by hosting the UEFA Champions League final in our country in August.
"I wish for our decisions to be good for our country and for Turkish football."
Trabzonspor and Istanbul Basaksehir are level on 53 points at the top of the Super Lig, three ahead of Galatasaray with eight rounds remaining.
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