You're right like. He was born in England but Turkish blood runs in his veins and he said he feels Turkish. He's Turkish. Simple as that.
Aye, nowt to do with the potential reaction should he admit his level of Turkishness was pretty much on par with Fry's Turkish Delight.
Obviously an Irish has to agree with this line of thinking, else his team would be hanging around with the Liechtensteins of this world.
I think if your parents are from wherever you have a right to associate with that country if you wish to. Nothing to do with football like.
I agree with that in principle, don't get me wrong, but it's absolutely crystal clear that in this instance he has just chosen to play for Turkey because it was his best chance at getting international football. That's fine, I'm just not going to pretend that I think Colin Richards is Turkish af.
Instead you're going the complete opposite way simply cause he's lived in England longer. I guess in 20 years when I will have lived here in Finland longer than I lived in England and I possibly have an accent, I'll be able to call myself Finnish
Were you born in Finland, like CKR was born in England? If so then yes, you'll be Finnish. You are already in fact.
This reminds me of when I said we'd had X amount of English players in our team on a particular day, and people argued blind that Dummett isn't English, he's Welsh, which he clearly absolutely is not.