A section of the crowd at Fatih Terim Stadium in Istanbul’s Basaksehir district had first whistled during the playing of the Greek national anthem, prompting Turkish star Arda Turan to argue with the crowd. The booing and the chants lasted the entire minute of silence, and chants of “Allah Akbar” were heard both in the moment of silence and throughout the match.
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‘Greece is our neighbour. “Today is world neighbors day, but our fans didn’t behave like neighbors in this match”, he added.
Greece and Turkey must fight human trafficking together and coordinate the work of their police and coast guards to help tackle the refugee crisis, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wrote in a Turkish newspaper on Tuesday.
Turkey and Greece have agreed to cooperate to prevent the “human tragedy” suffered by thousands of migrants who risk lives crossing the Aegean Sea on their way to Europe.
Turkish fans reacted the same way during a moment of silence earlier this year in respect of the victims of the bombings in the country’s capital of Ankara. “We will not tolerate it keeping a presence on our border”, said Sinirlioglu.
The Turkish Football Federation has announced that it will produce new guidelines for handling such a situation in the future in the face of such an worldwide embarrassment.
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“We are keeping the minute’s silence for the victims [of Paris attack]. Booing and chanting those types of things is unacceptable”. Schulz had criticized the wavering resolve of Poland after the Paris attacks to take 7,000 refugees as part of an European Union plan. Translation: “Martyrs, they do not die (they are immortal), homeland (land, our land) is indivisible”, Özsarı said. “There is no disrespect to them, there has not been, there will not be”. She said in Geneva that numerous migrants “are fleeing extremism and terrorism from the very people associated with the Paris attacks” and called for improved registration and vetting procedures to address security concerns.
