After Turkey's catastrophic Euro 2016, head coach Fatih Terim dropped Barcelona star Arda Turan and some other experienced players from the squad and added several young players to replace them. Initially, it seemed like a natural reaction to an unsuccessful tournament; young and new players most of the time offer a new phase for coaches. Nevertheless, Terim's reasoning behind all of this was not sound and satisfactory for many columnists and fans, given he accused the dropped players of committing treason against the Turkish nation and offered no technical, ethical or physical justification for depriving them. He basically said: "They should not apologize to me, it is the Turkish nation that they have wronged."Of course, this statement and Terim's furiousness at the press conference caused a heated debate in the media. While some of the columnists praised Terim's strict decision and revision of the squad, some others were more cautious and demanded more from Terim's remarks. Uğur Meleke from Milliyet daily wrote: "[About Terim's decision to drop Turan and other players] I do not know the reason, no one out of the 79 million [Turkish population] knows. Although he is supposed to explain his decision, Terim only says he is ready to pay the price. I guess Terim thinks the only price for not qualifying for the World Cup is his resignation."Now, there can be many reasons for dropping a player and given a coach is the supreme leader of a team, most of the time these reasons should be respected. Nonetheless, the only criterion that an argument needs in order to be accepted is valid, sound reasoning. If you accuse your players of treason just because they performed insufficiently in a tournament and had some disputes with you, there is not much to accept in your argument.Added to that, Terim has not convinced the Turkish people that he understood why the national team failed in the tournament, because he has not explained the issue on rational grounds either. All he said, in a very emotional manner, was "what needs to be done will be done!" in front of the press, while the public expected an explanation for the failure. Thus, I assume Terim does not think he should be held accountable and he is the man responsible for the national team's performance.However, Turkey will face Croatia next Monday and the team's performance against Russia last Wednesday was far from satisfactory. With a revised squad and no paradigm shift or strategic development, Terim's team will likely fail against a settled Croatia who managed to beat Turkey in Euro 2016.Finally, as long as the Turkish national team is not run by democratic processes and the people who run it do not hold themselves accountable because of their performance, all occasional success will be futile. Turkey recently paid the price for democracy, and it is now evident that it is a settled value in our society. The question is, why is football still ruled by monarchy? I hope this will be the last time I ask this question, as Terim walks into his and Turkish national team's ultimate failure.