It's not as black-and-white of an issue as both sides make it out to be. Without getting into the issue too much, I don't feel any side is blameless. People have the right to be bothered by the message the Erdogan photo conveyed (a feeling that doesn't make them racist) and I personally feel he shouldn't have done it, but the reactions that a few people had against the photo were racist and that's inexcusable. The WC performance bollocks was meanwhile an irrelevant addition to the debacle.
It's interesting how this whole episode has kinda separated 'the men from the boys', or the good blokes from the c*nts rather.
In the end it's all a shame because the only winner is Erdogan.