The players of the Fenerbahce football club (TORCH) left the field on April 8 after just one minute of their Turkish Super Cup final against Galatasaray (GSRAY), a fellow Istanbul Big Three soccer team.
Their protest action (media reported that the club had requested a postponement of the game before the Europa Conference League quarter-final match on April 11 at Olympiakos in Greece, but was rejected) forced the abandonment of the game and resulted in them conceding the trophy. Reuters reported.
Story photo: Erdogan regularly host Ali Koc (left), Fenerbahce boss, and his father Rahmi Koc (second from left) as well as other members of the Koc family in his palace in Ankara.
All fotos divided Unfortunately, the Turkish Presidency’s statements on the Kocs visits have little decisiveness.
In March, the Competition Committee of Türkiye provided an exemption for Ford Otosan (FROTO), a unit of Koc Holding (KCHOL), for a joint electric van project with Volkswagen.
When it comes to football in Türkiye, there is always too much noise. But it’s important to remember that the game’s big brothers are careful to keep business and football separate.
Erdogan in particular is extremely sensitive when it comes to separating media soap operas from business. If you read the media extensively, you will be convinced that Erdogan has been fighting with Istanbul-based “money” for decades.
Fenerbahce fielded its U19 team for the match, which was played in the city of Sanliurfa on the border with Syria.
The Super Cup final was originally planned In December in Saudi Arabia. However, the event was postponed as the clubs experienced “some problems” in organizing the event.
At the heart of these problems, according to media reports, was the desire of the two teams to wear T-shirts with the image of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, during pre-match warm-ups.
Turkish media suggested that Saudi officials had rejected the request, although it was unclear why, and that the clubs had subsequently declined to play the game.
The history of Saudi Arabia is the history of independence from Turkish rule. A persistent allergy to the Turkish state may have played a role in the drama.
The lengthy Super Cup final drama is not the only drama that Turkish football has staged recently.
MarchAt the end of a game, fans ran onto the pitch and attacked cheering Fenerbahce players who had just defeated their team in Trabzon on the eastern Black Sea coast.
In December, the head of MKE Ankaragucu, a soccer club in Ankara, ran onto the pitch after the final whistle and knocked a referee to the ground.
Since last yearAnother scandal is now on the country’s agenda with the court case in connection with a fraud offense in which ex-footballers, a coach, namely Fatih Terim, and a branch manager of Denizbank were allegedly involved.
Despite millions in transfer expenses financed Due to debt restructuring by public banks as well as multi-million dollar stadium investments, the Turkish football industry is unable to provide good football to stadium and television viewers.
However, it definitely plays a role in regularly causing tasty scandals.
This has been the case since the spread of Turkish football from Istanbul and Izmir abroad in the 1970s, alongside the spread of television sets not been A single period in which the focus was on fair, “sporty” play.
In addition to politicians, mafiosi have always been involved in the game, which is not only one of the main means of crowd control, but also a perfect “laundering machine” for money laundering activities and obtaining social status.
Although it didn’t attract as much attention as the Super Cup drama, Eyupspor, one of the smaller clubs in Istanbul, was there on April 8th promoted into Turkey’s top league, while Mehmet, police chief, minister and convicted gang leader, became Agar watched the game from the front row of the VIP seats.
Tweets – The Turks have a saying: “The rich man’s wealth tires the poor man’s jaw.” Agar’s crimes have tired the jaws of several generations over the decades.
