Fenerbahçe's decision on the Ziraat Cup has been made

Ali Koç's statements are as follows:

"I hope that this will be a year in Turkish football where we, as a country, run from success to success abroad and move step by step toward a fair competitive environment at home."

"I will speak as briefly as possible. I will complete the topics I want to touch upon with questions. We aim to finish within 2 hours."

"I aim to ask you to question whether justice is the foundation of property for Turkish football by discussing the point we have reached in the eyes of social media and fans, our decision regarding the Turkish Cup, how we arrived at this decision, what has been experienced since April 2, and by providing some examples regarding rights, law, and justice."

"We were elected in 2018 with high expectations and by a large margin. Our goal was very simple. That is why there was a high margin in the election. Fenerbahçe was going through a drought period; it hadn't been champion for 4 years. We were playing to 10-15 thousand people in the stands. To end this drought, to make peace with the stands, to improve economically... To achieve financial independence as soon as possible, or at least to put it on a path of no return. It was to continue by developing the vision of being the most successful sports club in the world. Although we achieved significant success in 2 of our 3 goals, the seasons we left behind did not develop as we had targeted in terms of football."

"WE DID NOT LET A SINGLE HARAM LIRA ENTER"

"Fenerbahçe's unspoken greatness comes from its strong and independent character. We worked day and night so that this character would not be tarnished and so that our community, which is its own remedy for every trouble, would not bow its head. While our eternal rival settles for money coming from black-market tickets and illegal betting, and puts the name of an illegal betting site on a century-old jersey, we did not let 1 haram lira enter Fenerbahçe's treasury, and we are proud of it."

"Fenerbahçe competes at the highest level internationally in 8 of its 9 branches. Naturally, when there is no success in football, you cannot experience the pride of this success."

"PERFECTION WAS EXPECTED FROM US"

"We have had our mistakes like every club. We did not shy away from self-criticism, we did not feel offended. In the period when we first arrived, we did not even intervene in the harshest criticisms on FBTV. However, let me ask a question; did the teams that became champions in the last 10 years have no mistakes at all? The transfer mistakes etc. attributed to us, were they not present in them at all? Did they have no managerial shortcomings? While everyone could become a champion despite their mistakes and shortcomings, for some reason we could not. Perfection was always expected from us. We had a flawless season last season, we achieved the highest points in our history. We won 4 of the 6 derbies, we lost 1. When they couldn't stop us, they pushed our rival."

"THERE IS A 1-POINT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US"

"The public and the press did not talk about our rivals' mistakes as much as ours in the recent period. Mistakes are punished more than crimes. I am not just saying this for our period. I don't know if it is being examined by the media, but in the points table of the last 10 years, there is a 1-point difference between us and Galatasaray, and a 5-championship difference. You cannot explain this with the ordinary flow of life."

"If you look at the last 5 years, we are 5 points ahead of them, but we still have no championship. When you look at the numbers, Fenerbahçe does not have an unsuccessful graph in the last 10 years. For some reason, the numbers do not tell the truth in Turkish football. It is a situation that is difficult to explain."

RESIGNATION CHANTS

"In some matches we played this year, despite how far we went last year, in the last match, let alone official matches, even in the friendly match we played against Zenit this year when everything was going well, our fans' reactions rose from the stands. We meet these complaints with understanding up to a point. We appreciate it up to a point. Our fans' emotions, expectations, beliefs, and support are the sole source of motivation and power for Fenerbahçe on and off the field at all times. However, the balances have changed. Think of such a season as a football match. The team has entered the break trailing 2-1, there is a huge second half. Is it wise to go out for the second half by supporting the team, or by protesting and pulling them down? There are 45 minutes left until the match ends. There is one half and 1 match left until the season ends. How many examples are there of us coming from 8-10 points behind to become champions. However, one must believe. Success does not come in this negative environment. If the Fenerbahçe fan wants it, no one can stand in front of them."

"We have reached such a point that we are in a state of mind as a community to react to Tadic, who has contributed 14 goals with 7 goals and 7 assists in 17 matches this season, who has never missed a match and has played 83 matches, and has contributed with 24 goals and 27 assists. It is necessary to calculate who this is beneficial to."

"At Samandıra, our players ask us, why can't you stop this... We experienced this during Mesut Özil's time. They don't want to receive the ball even if it is just one player. They feel this to the core. They ask us why this is not being prevented. I want our community to think about the damage this situation creates in the team."

"Say whatever you want to us before or after the match, but I ask my community to support all our athletes, everyone who carries that crest. To weigh the reactions they put forward for Fenerbahçe in their conscience. Support and patience until the end of the season. Whether to give it or not is the fan's decision. The fan is the innkeeper, we are the travelers. The innkeepers will decide. What kind of environment do they want in their own home..."

"Are we going to turn Kadıköy, which we call our temple, into an away game for our team, or are we going to give endless support?"

"There is a group that says the management cannot protect our rights. How much do you protect our team's rights in the stands? While some stands collapse on whistles that we cannot even call mistakes by the referee, how much of a unified reaction can be given in our stands? Are we aware that we are not in the spirit of fans who turn the match around and win it?"

"Are you aware that they are about to destroy our Fenerbahçe from within, which they could not destroy from outside with all that power and strength, and that they are working on this? Today it is done to this president, tomorrow it will be done to another president. We saw what a change of president in some clubs costs, we saw it."

"Football is the flagship; as success was not achieved, desire and expectation increased even more. The serious successes in the other two areas did not have enough of a response. We understand this. In this sense, we disappointed our community. We were also very sad. We all experienced disappointment together, we are sad. We are unhappy, naturally."

"NO SUCCESS COMES IN A NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENT"

"There is a very active and powerful mentality trying to break the bond between the fans and our coach, our team. Can't you see that some so-called media members who have been in our community since July 3, so-called Fenerbahçe media members who target us, are directing our fan groups? In short, we need to solve this. No success comes in such a negative environment. We will continue to believe, work, struggle, and fight. We believe in both our coach and our team."

"Sometimes you may not be satisfied with the football played, we are not sometimes either. Is the biting, pressing, dominant football that we all want possible in this environment?"

"CANCELLED SEASON TICKETS"

"The only thing our athletes expect is sincere support. Whatever you say about us is your right, we don't interfere. We live in such perceptions that, since I arrived, this is my 3rd term, we have never done any stand engineering. They say we are having season tickets cancelled, look at the perception. A total of 62 season tickets have been cancelled this season, 49 of them are black market, these are teams that work very hard for this. These people are the teams that negotiate with our team. There are deaths, reassignments, changes of residence, not liking the seat. There are 4 cancellations. One, a fan urinated on someone. The other started a fight. The third threw a foreign object onto the field. The last one is a person who made a fuss, saying let's raid Samandıra, let's raid the club, let's beat the players. 1 person. We are in a community ready to buy so many lies and slanders that these are gaining premium."

"IT HAS BEEN THE LAST STRAW FOR FENERBAHÇE"

"On March 17 last year, the lynching attempt both during and after the match we played against Trabzonspor was the last straw for Fenerbahçe. It ignited the process of the extraordinary general assembly on April 2. The decisions taken are known to all of us. I witnessed with sadness that a part of our community said that the congress we held the other day was in vain. The changes in Turkish football since this date show how effective our community's stance that day was. The situation we are in today is a football order that started stitch by stitch at the end of the 90s and was openly carried out during the period of the known organization."

"This order does not change in one day with 3 steps. This is everyone's problem. Do we deem this environment worthy of the Turkish people? However, we are the ones putting up the fight. Things are changing. Other coaches are talking, other clubs are getting involved."

SHOE FACTORY ALLEGATION

'On the same date, signatures were collected at the Union of Clubs Foundation for the current TFF change. Then the Super Cup match, we went to the match with the U19 team to keep the option of participating or not participating in the Turkish Cup in our hands with the authority we received from here. That move of ours, which made a sound in the world press, was actually one of the moves that ignited the change."

"Who was the one who said the dirtiest federation in history should resign, who said I will give a signature but didn't, and met with the TFF president of the period in Urfa 2 hours before the match and created a strategy for Mr. Büyükekşi's presidency to continue? Mr. Dursun Özbek."

"He holds such a meeting, but he slanders as if he is holding secret meetings in mansions with the TFF President over a meeting that does not exist. Oh, he said let's participate in TV, I didn't participate, etc... It's a total lie! He is lying to our faces!"

"On April 12, the foreign VAR referee decision was made by the TFF. It was incomplete because it was not given to every team. On July 18, the federation of Büyükekşi, who was thought to be won by everyone and was one of the most biased presidents in history, was removed from Turkish football by an organic, natural, reactive, and unspoken coalition. Hopefully, never to return."

SINGLE-TYPE CONTRACT DECISION

"With the new management, the boards have changed. Many suspicious referees have been changed, and they will continue to be changed. Young referees have been brought in, the desired result is not fully achieved right now, but the reason is the mechanism in VAR. TFF proposed a new model for MHK. Single-type contract. Why is this important, it is very, very important. Inside that contract, there is salary, image rights, sponsorship, etc., everything. You will no longer be able to have someone play for 12 million and say 4.5 to the CMB. You will not be able to evade the state's taxes. You will not be able to deceive the TFF's spending limits. One of the issues that excites me the most is the single-type contract."

"WE WILL NOT SUPPORT"

"Although it is ambiguous to us, it is said that foreign VAR will be used in the second half. As Fenerbahçe, we welcomed it. The ambiguous part is because it was said for a while. A few weeks, or the second half? If foreign VAR is not going to be applied in all matches, we will not support it. The biggest egregious mistakes happen in Anatolian matches. The 4 teams that were relegated last year were the ones who signed for Büyükekşi to leave, is it a coincidence? Foreign VAR should be in all matches."

"PEOPLE ARE TALKING NOW"

"Public awareness has been formed regarding the injustices and disgraces experienced in Turkish football. Now those who are wronged are making rebellious statements and confessions."

"Göztepe, Sergen Yalçın, Çağdaş Atan, today Şansal Bey's article, yesterday Mehmet Arslan's article, the statements of Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor after the Galatasaray matches. People are aware, people are talking now."

"Why is Fenerbahçe the only one dealing with the betting business, mafia, gang, an illegal sector. Is it left to Fenerbahçe to deal with this? When we brought these to the agenda, operations started. I saw it in the newspaper today, 40 different people who have become public figures in the last 2 months have been detained for advertising illegal betting."

"THE BIGGEST LIE"

"They do everything to prevent a fair competitive environment. There is an article in Fotomaç today, we wanted a foreign referee and Fenerbahçe didn't, I don't know if the Galatasaray general secretary really said this? 'My fight is to bring justice to everyone for Turkish football,' Dursun Bey's words. The biggest lie in the history of Turkish sports. The news in Fotomaç today is equivalent to the same."

SERGEN YALÇIN'S GALATASARAY STATEMENT

"How do you know Sergen, he is someone whose essence and word are one, brave, honest, and has no foxes in his head. 'The team that will complain about referees last is Galatasaray,' he says. He has no duty right now. One day he can become the head of Galatasaray, the national team. Many people stay away because it will be gum for militant-level journalists. He said it. 'They should thank the referees. Göztepe's rights were eaten,' he says. However, there is something more interesting. We have a season that we finished flawlessly with 99 points. 'Last year we lost 2-1 to Galatasaray with Antalyaspor. The referee came to Antalya 6-7 weeks later, we won the match. The referee said we compensated for the Galatasaray match, isn't it a shame,' he says. The world would shake in this place, there would be a small-scale earthquake. Who will investigate this? This is the prosecutor's office. This is match-fixing! Who was the referee? Abdulkadir Bitigen. Who is Bitigen? The man who was called to VAR in the zoom training last year and gave a penalty, who said there was no penalty in my opinion, there was a slight touch, who confessed, the man in VAR who said 'I don't know my state of mind, why'. What happened, the championship is gone!"

"The ship is sinking, and you are watching! Thank God that all the teams are fed up with this business. Göztepe's statement is an extraordinary statement."

"Sivas is angry about the offside-like, Rize, Göztepe... Why is the subject of the matches that are always angry Galatasaray? I am curious. In an ordinary flow, if the mistakes are not malicious, they are distributed equally, the pluses and minuses are more or less..."

"What did our new TFF president say as soon as he took office, we will be fair and just, he said I do not accept the referee in VAR making a mistake. His words gave us hope."

"INTENTION COURAGE WILL"

"Football is a survival issue. Is there no authority in the state at all, will they not see this trend and intervene, seize it, make a move, investigate. Is there none? The roadmap to get out of this spiral is clear. As some say, there is no need to rediscover America. What is needed is intention, courage, will. I am not saying merit, those who have all 3 have merit. We want them to be successful because they have these three in this federation. Dursun Özbek says 'We voted for you, they didn't,' support us instead of them. We don't even know who he voted for. The losing president turned to Dursun Özbek and said 'You sold us out.' May God not let us fall into those days, hopefully."

FOREIGN VAR DECISION

"The VAR decision announced today, I wish it had continued from the beginning as it was last season. We wouldn't have lost a whole half-season, and our federation wouldn't have been worn out so much."

"WE WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE TURKISH CUP"

"I said at the Council Board 'You are being operated on by the structure,' we interpret today's decision as TFF seeing some facts. At the point we have reached today, our president tried to fix the refereeing institution with national feelings, and expressed what he wants to do in the future. We also do not want to be dependent on a foreigner who knows football, but we do not want to be dependent on Turkish referees who do not know football. Decisions that Mr. Acun Ilıcalı describes as a 'perfect murder,' where VAR cannot intervene. This is especially true for yellow cards. Please watch the second half well. Do not allow operations on the field. A foreign referee should be considered on the field next season."

"In the Göztepe match, the player does things while looking into the man's eyes, he doesn't get a card. My player gets headbutted, he gets a yellow card. The opposing player doesn't get a red card. If no precautions are going to be taken on this issue, we should consider a foreign referee on the field. We must be prepared. When we ensure justice, many events will be resolved in a chain in Turkish football. Therefore, at the point we have reached today, we prefer to be constructive rather than destructive, and with this, due to the messages, emails, and posts that have come to us, and our coach and players persistently advising us on this issue, we are making the decision to participate in the Turkish Cup, taking into account what has happened since April 2. Not with the U19, but with the squad our coach deems appropriate... If things turn upside down, we have the right to withdraw. We will go out and play the match tomorrow. We will fight our fight to the end."

"Look, I described the mood of the community. It has spread so much that today our community should talk about Sergen Yalçın's words. We should talk about the injustices done to Göztepe in the Göztepe match. I am telling this to our community. Something is happening in one direction. It doesn't happen when you press the button! I have no information about slapping an MHK member or another MHK member betting. This is a very serious allegation. If an MHK member is betting... Woe to us!"

"Our coach came yesterday, he gave us a presentation, to the board members. Normally he deals with 2-3 managers, we all have responsibilities in our own areas. I understand our fans. I conveyed our fans' complaints to our coach. Our coach also has his own philosophy. It was said that Aykut Kocaman plays very defensively, we were the team that scored the most goals. We could not reach the point our fans expect in terms of finishing the match in the first half and not giving the opponent a chance, but we must achieve stability. Whether we are there or not, this coach should continue for the second year. One mistake we made is about communication. We don't know how to take side roads."