Squad-

Keepers-
Ufuk Ceylan (Manisaspor)
Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahçe)

Defenders-
Gökhan Gönül (Fenerbahçe)
Sabri Sarıoğlu (Galatasaray)
Servet Çetin (Galatasaray
Hakan Kadir Balta (Galatasaray)
İbrahim Kaş (Getafe)
Eren Güngör (Kayserispor)
Gökhan Zan (Beşiktaş)
Caner Erkin (CSKA Moskova)

Midfielders-
Hamit Altıntop (Bayern Münih)
Kazım Kazım (Fenerbahçe)
Emre Belözoğlu (Fenerbahçe)
Ayhan Akman (Galatasaray)
Mehmet Topal (Galatasaray)
Arda Turan (Galatasaray)
Mehmet Aurelio (Real Betis)
Nuri Şahin (Borussia Dortmund)
Tuncay Şanlı (Middlesbrough)

Attackers-
Halil Altıntop (Schalke 04)
Mevlüt Erdinç (Sochaux)
Batuhan Karadeniz (Eskişehirspor)
Semih Şentürk (Fenerbahçe)
Gökhan Ünal (Trabzonspor)
Mehmet Yıldız (Sivasspor)

Turkey will look to seal another 3 points and hope that Belgium will loose so that we can go second.

My Prediction: 4-1
I feel that Turkey will score alot of goals this match, i also feel that Estonia will score a dead ball situation as the idiot Volkan will concede obveiously.

Goalkeepers: Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahce), Serdar Kulbilge (Kocaelispor), Tolga Zengin (Trabzonspor)

Defenders: Serdar Kurtulus (Besiktas), Sabri Sarioglu (Galatasaray), Servet Cetin (Galatasaray), Ceyhun Gulselam (Trabzonspor), Ibrahim Kas (Getafe), Gokhan Zan (Besiktas), Hakan Kadir Balta (Galatasaray), Caglar Birinci (Denizlispor), Ugur Boral (Fenerbahce)

Mid-fielders: Gokdeniz Karadeniz (Rubin Kazan), Kazim Kazim (Fenerbahce), Aydin Yilmaz (Galatasaray), Ayhan Akman (Galatasaray), Mehmet Aurelio (Real Betis), Emre Belozoglu (Fenerbahce), Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund), Mehmet Topuz (Kayserispor), Caner Erkin (CSKA Moscow), Arda Turan (Galatasaray)

Forwards: Halil Altintop (Schalke 04), Mevlut Erdinc (Sochaux), Batuhan Karadeniz (Besiktas), Gokhan Unal (Trabzonspor), Mehmet Yildiz (Sivasspor)

Im hoping for a game but i cant help shake the feeling that Bosnia will beat us, of course i wouldnt want them too but might become true.
Prediction: 2-1 To Turkey it will be a very difficult game but i think the home advantage will help the Team.

Turkey vs Germany Euro 2008 SemiFinal LiveBlog

First off, this cartoon is blatantly insulting the Turkish immigrants in Turkey by depicting them as people who serve others kebabs. Secondly, Hakan Yakin is a Muslim and the cartoon depicts him wearing a red shirt with a cross in the middle. If it was meant to be a jersy they would have put the Swiss football associations logo instead. Thirdly it depicts Turks fighting other Turks and expects the audience (Swiss nationals) to draw sadistic pleasure in watching their enemies fight each other.

I hate to bring politics to the mix, but I would be failing in my duty if I did not. It’s no secret that anti-Turkish sentiment is very high in Switzerland and that a portion of Swiss openly hate their Turkish neighbors. Not all, but a defined amount that apparently have a voice. In contrast not a single Turkish newspaper or tabloid published anything offensive towards the Swiss people or the national team. Many Turkish fans who were there today at the match reported wide-spread anti-Turkish and anti-Muslim abuse. I wonder if Monseiur Platini and Herr Blatter will do anything about this. Probably not.

I find it very funny indeed when the whole world yells at the Polish for publishing anti-German cartoons but that publishing anti-Turkish cartoons has become accepted. I guess the best response to these cartoons is to crush the Swiss in their own home stadium, in front of their own fans, in front of their own cartoon publishers.

The squad is pretty much set with an interesting 4-3-3 formation:

Nihat Kahveci
Tuncay Sanli-Mevlut Erdinc
Emre-Aurelio-Hamit Altintop
Hakan Balta-Gokhan Zan-Servet Cetin-Sabri Sarioglu
Volkan Demirel

What happened to the glory days only a couple of years ago…..

I guess the squad could have been worse. My only real complaint is that the defense is terrible. Hakan Balta is too slow to get forward and come back and Gokhan Zan makes a mistake at an average of 4 per match. However there are some players that we can rely on.

First and foremost, Hamit Altintop will be key to our gameplan. Hamit’s consistent and hard woring style of play makes him a vital part of this national team. Secondly Emre has to really work hard in the heart of the midfield. The last thing we need is an open gate for the Portuguese to flood through.

In addition we also have some advantages.

For one the Turkish national team has a greater overall team morale than the Portuguese. Their are too many egos and “personalities” that are greater than Felipao. There is also a poorly-kept secret that many of the Portuguese players are sick and tired of Ronaldo’s ways. On the other hand, all of the Turkish players are completely obedient to “Imparator” and all of them wish to work together to bring the team to great places.

At the end of the day, nobody expects us to defeat Portugal. Many people watching the Turkish camp have stated that the Turkish players are very comfortable and have complete confidence in their abilities to get the job done (job meaning advancing to the next round). On the other hand, there will be tons of pressure on the Portuguese to defeat us. And as we all know, pressure causes mistakes and mistakes lead to Turkish counterattacks and Turkish counterattacks lead to goals for the milli takim.

My prediction? A 1-1 draw which then inspire Turkey to defeat Switzerland and Portugal to “work for us” and defeat the Czechs. I see both Portugal and Turkey advancing, in first and second order respectively.

Come on Ay-Yildizlar, let’s show the world what the Turks can do!!!!!