The visitors went ahead through Omer Sismanoglu after 28 minutes and made the points safe when Andre Moritz slotted home a penalty with 20 minutes to go.

Fenerbahce moved up to fourth with a convincing defeat of Genclerbirligi in Istanbul.

Summer signing Mamadou Niang opened the scoring after 21 minutes and an own goal from Aykut Demir doubled the hosts' advantage four minutes later.

Gencler's hopes of getting back into the contest receded when they had Mile Jedinak sent-off midway through the second half and Fener capitalised late on through Andre Santos.

Ankaragucu came from a goal down to beat Konyaspor 4-1.

Peter Grajciar's 37th-minute penalty handed Konyaspor the advantage but goals from Metin Akan, Jan Rajnoch, Ozgur Cek and Stanislav Sestak saw the hosts run out convincing winners.