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Turkey defends footballers saluting soldiers

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Istanbul: Turkey’s sports minister voiced support on Tuesday for national team players who saluted the country’s soldiers during their Euro 2020 match with France.
Sports Minister Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoglu described the controversial goal celebration — in which players were seen as supporting Turkey’s current military operation in Syria — as a “nice salute”. France drew 1-1 with Turkey in the Euro 2020 qualifier amid mounting tensions after Paris condemned Turkey’s military operation against Kurdish militants in Syria. European football’s ruling body UEFA had already said it would “examine” a military salute given by Turkish players during an earlier match against Albania. But the sports minister said the controversy was unwarranted, and pointed to the fact that French star Antoine Griezmann had also given a military salute to President Emmanuel Macron in June. “Those who remained quiet about Griezmann’s military salute are trying to distort our national footballers’ nice salute,” Kasapoglu said holding up a picture of Griezmann’s salute. He said critics were trying to distract from Turkey’s success in staying top of the qualifying group. (AFP)

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