Galatasaray emphasis on TRT angers Fenerbahçe fans

Galatasaray Çağdaş Faktoring, which defeated Spanish representative Casademont Zaragoza in the EuroLeague Women's Final Six stage, has qualified for the tournament final. The Yellow-Reds will face Fenerbahçe Opet, which eliminated Spar Girona on the road to the final, and the two Turkish clubs are preparing to face off in the final match for the trophy.

TRT Spor drew the ire of Yellow-Navy fans with the phrasing used in the subtitle announcing this important matchup: "Our representative Galatasaray Çağdaş Faktoring became the opponent of Fenerbahçe Opet in the final by defeating Spain's Casademont Zaragoza 63-56 in the FIBA Europe Women's League semi-final." While fans took to social media to express their reaction to the term "Our representative" being applied only to Galatasaray, other users commented that this choice might have been made based on the match result.

Differences of opinion were evident in social media posts. Some of the comments were as follows:

• "There is nothing to dwell on; they will say 'our representatives' in the upcoming match anyway."
• "When a Turkish team plays against a Spanish team, they become 'our representative'..."
• "Whoever prepared this text, may the salary they receive from my taxes and those of other Fenerbahçe fans be forbidden..."
• "I wonder if this is a human error or intentional."
• "Very shameful, is Fenerbahçe a Greek team?"
• "Before this subtitle, there was a text saying 'Our representative Fenerbahçe Opet defeated Spain's representative Girona and reached the semi-finals.' Don't create controversy, it's shameful."
• "Is it that hard to say 'Our representative ... eliminated ... and matched with our other representative .... in the final'?"

News Source: 12punto