The match had a goal from Olic shortly after, but it was disallowed for offside.
Terim then made his first substitution, taking off the ineffective Kazim Kazim for Ugur Boral, and Bilic followed, bringing off Kranjcar for Petric.
Minutes later Rakitic squandered Croatia’s second gilt-edged chance, his close range shot, after being set up by Olic, flying high over Rustu’s bar.
With quarter-of-an-hour left of normal time, Terim switched midfielder Mehmet Topal for Fenerbahce striker Senturk in search of that elusive goal.
On 84 minutes, as Croatia maintained their almost constant pressure, Rustu earned his wages and some when only his outstretched hands edged out Srna’s finely struck 20m free-kick.
Extra time produced the badly needed fireworks, but only in the dying minutes.
Croatia thought they had grabbed the winner when Klasnic struck, but unbelievably after such a turgid affair Turkey hit back with Senturk equalizing with a great shot into the top left hand corner to force the spot kicks.
The win came at a price to Turkey who will be missing Tuncay Sanli, Arda Turan and Emre Asik because of suspension after this trio picked up their second yellow cards of the competition, while Nihat went off in extra-time clutching his groin.
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