Acun Ilıcalı speaks at press conference: 'We have filed an application with the TFF'

Fenerbahçe Vice President Acun Ilıcalı made statements regarding the current agenda.

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Acun Ilıcalı speaks at press conference: 'We have filed an application with the TFF'

Fenerbahçe Vice President Acun Ilıcalı is making evaluations regarding the football agenda.

Highlights from Ilıcalı's statements are as follows:

''Let everyone know this well... Everything I talk about today will be concrete. There will be no talk in the gray area.

A former Galatasaray executive said, 'We won't let the league finish.' Then he apologized. Developments occurred following this threat, and Fenerbahçe's rights were violated. Then, it was said, 'Why are you raising the tension? We are all brothers.'

According to the common consensus of all referee commentators in Turkey, the number of yellow cards not shown to Galatasaray this year is 14. This number is 1 for Fenerbahçe and 1 for Beşiktaş... It is the common decision of 10 referee experts.

The number of penalties not given to Fenerbahçe this year, excluding the last match, is 6. Including the last match, 7 of our penalties have not been given in 7 weeks. What kind of league is this, what kind of world?

A team has not been given 7 penalties, and its opponent has not been given 14 yellow cards. Is this league fair?

This week was the week of making 2x2 equal 3. In the Galatasaray match, the game stopped for 9 minutes just for VAR. While Galatasaray was leading 3-2, they gave 6 minutes at the end of the match, which should have been extended by 17 minutes. Kasımpaşa's goal came. Suddenly, the match stopped ending. I feel very lucky because I watched it.

"In the Antalyaspor match, the flag goes up on Edin Dzeko's ball. Second half, long ball, boom, the flag goes up. The flag is constantly up on our attacks! It is unknown whether it is offside or not, and we cannot even go to VAR. In our match, VAR suddenly disappeared. We played a match without VAR. The game started in 18 seconds and 8 milliseconds. Is there any game that has started in 18 seconds on Turkish soil until now? The name of what we are experiencing is a disgrace. Something else is being played. The rules have been abandoned now. Something else is being played against Fenerbahçe."

"I am a person who has friends and acquaintances who are Galatasaray and Beşiktaş fans. I am a person who has intimacy with people from all walks of life in Turkey. We are children of the same homeland, but when it comes to Fenerbahçe, I don't recognize anyone. In my life, I have done whatever was asked regarding Fenerbahçe, both during the Aziz Yıldırım era and the Ali Koç era."

"The words Okan Buruk said to the referee are, 'Sir, if you give this penalty, you can never referee a match here again.' This is the point reached in Turkey. After that minute, the referee suddenly drops the stoppage time to 6. The referee has received a threat, what will he do? He wants to referee the match, to continue his career. It has happened to others before, the man knows this."

"Last year, the referee of the Galatasaray match said, 'I don't know in what state of mind I gave the penalty.' That state of mind is exactly this state of mind. After the operation is finished, they will say, 'Do not attack these referees, these referees are our children, do not stir up football.'"

WE SUBMITTED ALL DOCUMENTS TO THE TFF

"We visited the TFF today and submitted the documents. This is not a 'Come on, let's attack, let's pressure' federation. This federation has given us promises and wants to bring justice. The TFF wants justice, and we want justice. We do not want privileges. We will achieve this. Not by burning and destroying things; we will do it with concrete examples and communication. Why should we destroy the TFF? If the TFF President said 'There is no problem,' we would take a different stance. The TFF President does not talk to the referees. He can only change the officials there. The TFF President is also aware of the situation. The TFF President said, 'Trust us regarding justice, we will not make concessions to anyone.'"

WE HAVE THE FENERBAHÇE FANS BEHIND US

"To those who are creating a stir on social media and waiting for us to fall, I say this: we have the Fenerbahçe fans behind us. They chose us, sorry. We will not leave with your efforts to destroy us. We will walk with a roar with our fans who know how to get up when they fall. I will also do my best. Since the president took over, the economy has improved, and last year the championship was taken from our hands. We will overthrow the system and run for the championship together. The only formula for success is to be united."

"Let them continue their operation on social media, we have never been afraid of this. I have been famous for 20 years, and there is nothing that hasn't been written about me for 20 years. I laugh at these. We, as the management and the team, have bonded. Those against us are obvious, with God's permission, we will destroy them and become champions."

- What will you do if you cannot destroy this system?

"We will destroy it. I don't think a local referee is a must. If the federation president delves into this issue now, if there is hopelessness, you bring in a foreign referee. You build the system with foreign referees, and that's it. If they make a mistake, at least we can say it was a lapse of judgment. Is there a referee scandal in England? Yes, but the referee is not under pressure, is he? If he needs to be punished, he gets punished."

"Our referee Cihan Aydın joins with his daughter's nickname. He joins the meeting with his own daughter's nickname, 'Mira, the biggest Galatasaray fan.' We don't need to talk about this. I'm not saying anything. It doesn't feel like a big scandal to me anymore within this season. We have experienced such things..."

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