Front-runner Germany Faces Turkey In Euro 2024 Hosting Vote

GENEVA (AP) — Germany is favored to beat Turkey in Thursday's 2024 European Championship vote after four years as front-runner in a campaign that explicitly mixed soccer and politics. A study of the two candidates published by UEFA last week boosted Germany's case with Turkey falling short on an assessment of human rights, which is a new factor of tournament bidding. Still, Turkey put forward its strongest bid yet — backed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian government — after losing contests to host Euro 2008, 2012 and 2016. "President Erdogan is a great football fan," Turkey's top elected official at UEFA, Servet Yardimci, told The Associated Press in an interview.Read more on NewsOK.com

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