World Cup: for quoting Hakan Sukur, a Turkish commentator is removed from the antenna

The scene takes place during the Canada-Morocco match.

After four minutes of play, Hakim Ziyech scores for Morocco, which opens the qualification for the round of 16.

Behind his microphone, the Turkish commentator, Alper Bakırcıgil, recalls that this goal is fast but not the fastest in the history of the World Cup.

Indeed, before the Moroccan, the Turkish player Hakan Sukur had scored after only… 11 seconds against South Korea 20 years ago, in 2002.

📌Kanada-Fas maçında TRT spikeri Alpay Bakırcıgil, 4. dakikada gol olması üzerine "Şunu hatırlatmak gerekiyor ki, Dünya Kupası'nın en hızlı golü Hakan Şükür tarafından atılmıştı" dedi.

📌Devre arası spiker değiştirildi, ikinci yarıyı spiker Cüneyt Kıran sundu.

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Except that in Turkey, it is not advisable to name the former Galatasaray striker.

And for good reason, Hakan Sukur is considered a terrorist by the current Turkish government and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The former footballer is accused of being a member of Gülen, an armed terrorist group.

Aged 51 today, Hakan Sukur had to leave Turkey to go into exile in the United States and become a VTC driver.

An arrest warrant and a freezing of all his assets have been issued against him since the coup attempt in the country on July 15 and 16, 2016.

Viewers of the Turkish public channel TRT were surprised to see that Alper Bakırcıgil no longer commented on the second half.

As soon as the meeting was over, social networks were quick to comment on this change of commentator.

Some went so far as to claim that Alper Bakırcıgil was fired on the spot.

A rumor quickly denied by TRT as mentioned by TELE1.

According to the Turkish channel, Alper Bakırcıgil would have been discarded to preserve it because viewers spoke of their emotion regarding this inappropriate reference.