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Turkey's football federation has said it will sell tickets to England fans for October's crucial Euro 2004 qualifying game in Istanbul.

England's Football Association has repeated its intent to refuse its allocation of tickets for the final Group Seven qualifying match.

But the FA is now seeking urgent clarification from its Turkish counterparts after newspaper claims that tickets would be made available to England fans.

Haluk Ulusoy, the president of the Turkish federation, reportedly told the News of the World: "Even if the English FA is not going to sell tickets and not going to bring fans over to Istanbul, we will do it for them.

"If there are fans who want to watch this game, they can come and get tickets from us.

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"We will sell as many tickets to them as they want - 1,000, 2,000 or even 3,000.

"We can also give VIP seats out if they want them."

Ulusoy's claims may prompt more England fans to travel for the high-risk match, which will decide the outcome of the group.

FA head of media Adrian Bevington said: "We will be discussing this with the Turkish federation over the next 24 hours to establish what their view is with regard to this article.

"We would like to strongly reaffirm the position of ourselves, the Government and the police that no fans should travel to Turkey."

The FA adopted a similar stance towards Saturday's qualifier in Macedonia, but was powerless to prevent about 250 England fans buying tickets on the black market.