I do not know y many chinese under look Turkey.
When China was in the same group with Turkey in the world cup, at that time many chinese hoped to get 3 points from them. I have a german friend, who is also a super fan on soccer. He told me no way China can win Turkey. Turkey was already considered as top teams in the Europe at that time. Although I do not believe him, it turned out Turkey played really good. He said though the Turkey does not have a good internal "lian sai", but their players are really good. Actually no team in Europe dare to say to win them for sure. I guess we just used our "old" "common"sense to look at Turkey. That team has long been considered as top teams in Europe, according to him.