President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday slammed the UEFA decision to move the Champions League final from Istanbul to Porto as “political”. 

“In my opinion, they made a political decision,” Erdogan said in a televised speech. 

“I call it political because we were notified two years ago of the decision that the Champions League would be played in Turkey,” he added. 

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