July 6, 2012

Yıldırım denies being outraged at Gülen, refutes recent article

Fenerbahçe Chairman Aziz Yıldırım has refuted a recent news report that claimed Yıldırım was angry with Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen but spoke highly of the prime minister. Yıldırım said the report was written without his will or knowledge and that the claims about some people he reportedly praised or criticized are not true.

They will not be able to make football an arena for enmity

Hüseyin Gülerce

Centers and circles of power that fail to understand or accept the transition from guardianship to democracy, from old Turkey to new Turkey -- in other words, the great transformation -- are now trying new methods of stalling the process. There are signs they want to make football an arena for assault, aggression or enmity.