Others have claimed that it’s simply just the Turkish way.
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“Our fans should have behaved during the national anthems and during the one minute silence, ” Turkey’s manager Fatih Terim said.
The scenes have been unfavourably compared with the solidarity showed by English fans with their French counterparts at the England-France friendly at Wembley also on Tuesday.
“We’re staging a moment of silence for people that have died”.
The fans chanted “Allahu Akbar”, booed the Greece team and shouted slogans in favor of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Basaksehir Stadium. This is not child’s play.
Elsewhere, a game scheduled to take place between Germany and Netherlands was cancelled and the HDI stadium in Hanover evacuated after police announced they had received a “serious” terror threat.
More than 650,000 migrants and refugees, have reached the Greek islands so far in 2015 using the eastern Mediterranean route, the global Organisation for Migration (IOM) said earlier this month. “Booing the anthem, where’s that coming from?”
“To deal with human traffickers we need a joint fight”, Tsipras told journalists. “If this would have been done to us, we would be really upset”.
A few witnesses wrote on social media that it was meant as a protest of Western hypocrisy.
“It is essential to have more legal forms for refugees to come to Europe in order to have proper screening, proper identification, security checks, which are much more easy to do if things are done legally”, Guterres said.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is on a working visit to Turkey for the first time since taking office in January.
Turkey’s football authorities on Thursday adopted an action plan on fan behaviour to prevent a repeat of the whistling and shouting during a minute of silence for the Paris attacks victims that shocked observers. Without of minute of silence.
Except that the boos and whistles, even the chants, are not reflective of whether Turks care about the Paris attacks or not.
Abs Pangader Actually, they’re chanting “Sehitler olmez, vatan bolunmez”.
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Özsarı adds this: “They booed the terrorist, not the victims”. Any victims of terrorism are accepted as martyrs in Turkish culture.
