May 22, 2012

Gülen says acts of violence at stadiums not ‘coincidental’

Well-respected Turkish intellectual and scholar Fethullah Gülen has said recent acts of violence at football stadiums by hooligans are not coincidental, adding the events were orchestrated by circles that wish to destroy the peaceful atmosphere of Turkey.

Turkey and hidden fanaticisms

Emre Uslu

Recent nonsensical arguments that the Gülen movement wants to control the Fenerbahçe football club and its political and social effect on Fenerbahçe fans once again proved that Turkey is not a country of rational people.

Now, even under the pressure of Fenerbahçe and perhaps for political reasons, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish Football Federation's (TFF) Professional Football Discipline Committee (PFDK) has admitted that Fenerbahçe executives committed the crime of match fixing. The evidence in the court file is so obvious that even the TFF, which was selected to cover the stinking truth about Fenerbahçe and other football clubs' involvement in the match-fixing crime, had to admit that such things took place.