DW: Erdogan's football victim, Mesut Ozil

More and more criticism continues in Germany against Mesut ãozil -- first shared photography with Turkey's president of state, Recep Tayip Erdogan. Then his poor performance during the 2018 World Football Championship. But even in Turkey, ãozili has been often critical in the past because he did not play for Turkey. The favorite player for this reason he's never been to Turkey.

Since 2009, finished with the German national football team. In his biography “Game Law: and because you need to make your dreams” reality, he tells of his difficult decision to play for Germany. His mother wanted him to play for the Turkish national football team, his father to play for the German team. quezil listened to his father.

Crossing a Turkish football team?

Bagis Erten is a sports journalist in Cumhuriyet newspaper. He shows that ãozili's then decision to play for the German national football team instead of the Turkish one brought great criticism of wagezil in Turkey. It is possible that dealt with German football national and play for a football team in Turkey, Erten says. He doesn't rule out Turkish newspapers coming up with titles like “isn't he finding a team?

The press in Turkey has only partially followed developments about ⇩, Erten explains. Because in Turkey it is normal to photograph with Erdogan, the football world did not understand what problems have been posed to ⇩ in Germany”, he explains. Erten's personal thought: dealt with Erdogan, who is criticized in Europe, should have thought earlier that a picture of him is not a good impression. But Egen believes that the real cause for his criticism of dealt with ãozil was his weak performance. If Germany had played too well at the World Football Championship, would it have focused so much on ãozill? I don't believe”.

“German-Turkish dilemma”

Kenan Basaran writes about the sport for the daily Hürriyet newspaper. He remembers Ilkay Gündogan. He too met Erdogan, but Gündogan managed to better manage the situation with a statement. “While Mesut ãozili was always silent. If he believes that he has been treated unjustly, he must have been protected”, Basaran said.

If the world of sports in Germany is of the opinion that this picture is not compatible with integration, then they should not have left ⇩ to play for the German national football team. ”

So isn't the integration of Turkish-rooted German athletes as ãozili possible? “To answer this question is not easy”, Basaran is expressed by the Hürriyet daily newspaper. Sportsmen, whose families have emigrated from Turkey to Germany, are in a major dilemma between the two countries, he said. Turkey's “ãozil was accused of not playing for Turkey. Now they blame him in Germany. You can't deny the cultural conflict these people experience. ”