@T-123456 Basaksehir at least plays good football and many people I have talked with (not from Turkey) were impressed with their performance in the Champions League. They also have some good players and good atmosphere in the team so I wish them success regardless of the fact they are a team that is close to AKP. Let's see what teams they will draw tomorrow but I have hopes that they will surprize everyone.
Another team I wish success as a Fenerbahce fan is Besiktas- the only team from the Istanbul Big 3 who are developing and are playing good football in the last years. Guys have a world class stadium that is always full and a great coach like Senol Gunes. They have a team with great international players like Quaresma, Talisca, Atiba, Adriano, Babel and Pepe, Gary Medel, Lens and Negredo who joined them this year. All that on top of some of the better Turkish players. I wish them everything best in the Champions league against Monaco, Porto and RB Leipzig.
Unfortunately Fenerbahce fans will concentrate on the Basketball and Volleyball again this year it seems... the football team is totally shit in any sense of the word and everything is a fault of the Aziz Yildirim idiot who refuses to leave the club like and African dictator or something. We basically gave the win to Vardar with 3 idiotic plays by the defenders and the goolkeeper that lead to goals for them.
As for Galatasaray I really have no idea. Guys were going strong like 3-4 years ago when Drogba, Sneijder, Podolski and all the other good players were at the team, then UEFA banned them for 2 years from the European Club competitions and everything went downwards. Then this year they qualified to the Europa League and lost to a team I have never heard of ever... then some weeks later they started the Championship really good so most probably they had a bad luck. For the first time Turkey had a chance to put 5 team in the Group phases and Fenerbahce and Galatasaray shitted themselves epically.
Konyaspor on the other hand... those guys will get their asses kicked in the Europa League the same way they did last year. They have some of the worst fans in Turkey. Fans which on the Super cup final destroyed the whole stadium in Samsun, who were throwing bottles, coins and knives on the field, who were calling the fans of Besiktas "terrorists" and were booing them while they were singing the "Izmir march". A bunch of typical you know what... we have them on this forum too.
The worst part is that the TFF gave them a punishment of 5 matches without fans for what they did and the Prime Minister himself some days ago while on a rally in the Konya region was talking how he would do everything he can to ease their punishment...
AKP is tolerating every hooligan as long as he is loyal to them. On the other hand they do everything they can to keep the Ultras franctions and fans of the big teams who are mostly against them and who were protesting against them in 2013 out of the stadiums... Why do you think they introduced the Passolig system, why do you think TRT and all the AKP related TVs silence the microfones on the stadiums and the basketball arenas when Besiktas or Fenerbahce are playing. Guys are just afraid that someone will hear that people on the stadium are singing the Izmir marsi and chanting against Erdo.
Check this documentary, you will see some interesting sides of the Football fans in Turkey.
