Uefa have announced that there will be no minute’s silence at the Euro 2016 quarter-finals for the victims of the Istanbul airport attack.
A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has resulted in 41 deaths and over 230 injuries, according to reports.
The attack is being linked to the either the Islamic State or Kurdish separatists, but so far no group has admitted to it.
It was expected that a minute’s silence would be held at Euro 2016 for victims of the attack, but the governing body have confirmed that they will not be doing this at the quarter-final stage. Their reason behind not doing it has left a lot of people scratching their heads.
UEFA says it holds minute's silence when tragedies are "related to football directly, or to one of the participating teams or host country"
— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) June 29, 2016
Unsurprisingly, a lot of people picked up on the fact that Turkey did take part in the tournament, but were knocked out in the group stage.
Turkey played three games in the competition, losing their opening two matches to Croatia and Spain respectively before going out on a high note with a 2-0 win over Czech Republic.
This has caused a lot of confusion regarding Uefa’s statement explaining why there will not be marking the tragedy at the tournament.
@RobHarris turkey participated
— Joga Bonito (@fighting_gooner) June 29, 2016
@RobHarris So they don’t value #TUR‘s three match contribution to this tournament?! #Euro2016
— Bοβ Bεανς (@bobbeans83) June 29, 2016
@RobHarris but Turkey participated… what?
— Rui (@rsantos50) June 29, 2016
@RobHarris sure that they would do if it happened in other eliminated countries like spain, switzerland or non-participating netherlands
— Sezer Türksoy (@sezerturksoy) June 29, 2016
@RobHarris so a turkey from a parallel universe participated then?
— Sinyor (@SignoreTr) June 29, 2016
@RobHarris they are a participating team though? They might be out but they’re a Euro 2016 participant.
— Alex Thomas (@AlThomas1989) June 29, 2016
@RobHarris So you exit and no respect paid for your loss because you’re no longer relevant….hmmm
— Phil P (@Suvaguy) June 29, 2016
@RobHarris @CoutinhoFlair turkey did participate so this deserves a minutes silence, uefa and fifa both need sorting out
— jasonsmith (@S2010Smith) June 29, 2016
@RobHarris but Turkey participated
— Lamin (@lamindiallo) June 29, 2016
