Germany under-21 European champion Salih Özcan has decided to play senior team football for Turkey and has been picked for next week’s friendly against Italy by coach Stefan Kuntz. Cologne midfielder Özcan said on Friday in an Instagram post that after long deliberations he has decided “out of conviction” to play for the birth country of his parents. “I want to play for Turkey,” he said, adding that this decision “not the least diminishes my respect for Germany and the DFB [German] team.” Özcan, 24, was born in Germany and played in all German national team from under-15 level. He won the 2021…