"Tomorrow is an important day and everything is on the line."

Those were the words of Astana's Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev after stage five at the Tour of Turkey. Kozhatayev and his teammates finished the short and hilly stage to the white salt cliffs of Pamukkale in a mass sprint with the same time as stage winner Sacha Modolo of Italy.

With one final climb in the 2015 Tour of Turkey, Astana Pro Team looks to put Miguel Lopez at the front for the short but steep stage six finish in Selçuk.

Race commissaires summoned Dmitry Gruzdev to their tent following the stage to review video footage of a short physical altercation among several riders in the peloton. In accord with Astana Pro Team Directors, officials then disqualified Gruzdev from further articipation in the 2015 Tour of Turkey.