The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, shared on the "X" platform about the Turkish national and Merih Demiral.

Offsideplus.az reports that the head of the country congratulated our neighbors for advancing to the 1/4 finals of the European Championship and criticized the 2-game suspension given to the defender for showing the "grey wolf" sign:

"I congratulate the Turkish national team, which successfully performed at the European Football Championship held in Germany, on the occasion of qualifying for the 1/4 stage and taking a place among the 8 strongest European national teams. In particular, congratulations to Merih Demiral, who scored 2 goals in the 1/8 final stage and was elected the best player of the game I strongly condemn the punishment applied against Merih. I wish the Turkish national team victory in the game against Holland!

Long live the Turkish world!"