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Oğuzhan Koç attacks Kerem Aktürkoğlu: “At Galatasaray, you would have been suspended indefinitely”

From Cumhuriyet · () Turkish

Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Named sources Outcome reported
  • Kerem Aktürkoğlu criticized refereeing after Fenerbahçe lost 2-1 at home to Beşiktaş, saying a penalty incident had been visible to everyone.
  • Singer Oğuzhan Koç attacked Aktürkoğlu’s comments and said he would have been suspended indefinitely for making them at Galatasaray.
  • Koç later deleted the post and published another message criticizing Fenerbahçe’s squad planning and recent performances.

Fenerbahçe’s 2-1 derby defeat to Beşiktaş continued off the pitch after singer Oğuzhan Koç sharply rebuked Kerem Aktürkoğlu for discussing refereeing decisions.

Four weeks have passed, I think, and for four weeks we have been talking about referees in the Süper Lig.

· Kerem AktürkoğluAktürkoğlu criticized refereeing after Fenerbahçe’s derby defeat.

Aktürkoğlu said Fenerbahçe had not played well, but argued that officials had treated the team unfairly. Referring to a penalty appeal, he said the entire country had seen the incident and disputed the claim that the ball had gone out of play. “Four weeks have passed, I think, and for four weeks we have been talking about referees in the Süper Lig,” he said.

He also said he was tired of certain decisions and interpretations. “There is nothing fair in this. You can win even in a match when you play badly. Something has to be stopped now,” Aktürkoğlu said.

There is nothing fair in this. You can win even in a match when you play badly. Something has to be stopped now.

· Kerem AktürkoğluHe argued that refereeing decisions affected the match’s outcome.

Koç responded on social media, telling him: “If you had played like this and given this interview at Galatasaray, you would have been suspended indefinitely.” He said supporters had the right to object to poor performances and urged players not to collapse whenever an opponent made contact.

If you had played like this and given this interview at Galatasaray, you would have been suspended indefinitely.

· Oğuzhan KoçKoç attacked Aktürkoğlu’s performance and post-match comments.

Koç also criticized players who complained about referees, saying Fenerbahçe fans did not want to see that. He later deleted the widely discussed post and published another message referring sarcastically to the club’s planning and several players, including Kerem, İrfan, Oğuz, Nene and Lukaku.

We do not want to see a Fenerbahçe player crying about the referee.

· Oğuzhan KoçKoç criticized the team’s complaints about officiating.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.