Fenerbahçe’s Burak Kızılhan: “This League Lacks Credibility and Justice!”

Following the match, Kızılhan released a statement via the club’s official website, reiterating:
“A league officiated by these referees lacks credibility and justice!”

FULL STATEMENT

“The referee errors we are ashamed to witness every week continue to influence the league’s outcome.

Despite incidents unfolding before the eyes of millions, the referees’ blatantly biased decisions have become a direct challenge to those who seek fair competition in Turkish football and to our club.

Referees are fully aware that if they make mistakes favoring a specific team, they will continue officiating matches; however, even if a decision is correct, if it goes against that team, they will face weeks-long suspensions from officiating.

This distorted system opens all doors for Galatasaray and emboldens them.

Players of this particular team act with the assurance that their insults toward referees, rough challenges against opponents, and rule violations, as we saw again tonight, will go unpunished.

All this favoritism and disregard for rules are shamelessly normalized with word games and diversion tactics.

A league officiated by these referees lacks credibility and justice!

To ensure fairness and recognize the efforts earned on the field, the implementation of foreign referees must be immediately initiated.

Our stance, expectation, and demand are clear:

We cannot tolerate Turkish football enduring another day deprived of fairness and sporting integrity!”