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Turkey national team coach Fatih Terim has announced the list of 27 players that will represent the country in Euro 2021 qualifiers vs Latvia and Netherlands.
Milli Takim are in danger of missing out on the tournament finals seeing as they sit two points behind play-off berth and five points adrift of automatic qualifying spot.
Therefore, Turkey desperately need to defeat Latvia on 3 September and they are 1.22 (2/9) to claim maximum points and head to Netherlands game high on confidence.
Fenerbahce keeper Volkan Demirel (63/0) has been surprisingly left out of the 27-man squad, while Emre Belezoglu (94/9), Hamit Altintop (82/7) and Colin Kazim-Richards (37/2) miss out as well.
Barcelona star Arda Turan (81/14) has been called despite struggling through injury and it remains to be seen whether he will play any part in upcoming qualifiers.
Yusuf Erdogan is the only uncapped player on the roster, whilst Yasin Oztekin (1/0), Sener Ozbayrakli (1/0) and Emre Tasdemir (1/0) are some of the less experienced players included.
Turkey squad:
Goalkeepers: Volkan Babacan (Istanbul BB), Mert Günok (Bursaspor), Onur Kıvrak (Trabzonspor);
Defenders: Gökhan Gönül (Fenerbahce), Şener Özbayrakli (Fenerbahce), Serdar Aziz (Bursaspor), Hakan Balta (Galatasaray), Ersan Gülüm (Besiktas), Semih Kaya (Galatasaray), Caner Erkin (Fenerbahce), Emre Taşdemir (Bursapor);
Midfielders: Yusuf Erdoğan (Trabzonspor), Gökhan Töre (Besiktas), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Bayer Leverkusen), Mehmet Ekici (Trabzonspor), Selçuk İnan (Galatasaray), Oğuzhan Özyakup (Besiktas), Alper Potuk (Fenerbahce), Mehmet Topal (Fenerbahce), Ozan Tufan (Fenerbahce), Yasin Öztekin (Galatasaray), Olcay Şahan (Besiktas), Arda Turan (Barcelona);
Forwards: Umut Bulut (Galatasaray), Mevlüt Erdinç (Hannover), Batuhan Karadeniz (Sivasspor), Burak Yılmaz (Galatasaray).
