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Anti-Kurdish slogans/violence at football match in Turkey

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Mar 05, 2023 11:43 pm

Anti-Kurdish slogans and violence

Fans of Bursaspor football team shouted anti-Kurdish slogans and chants ahead of their team’s bout with Diyarbakir-based Amedspor on Sunday, with personnel and players of both teams also engaging in physical altercations before and after the match

Videos on social media showed Bursaspor fans throwing knives, bullets, and water bottles onto the pitch before the match began, while chanting racist slogans against Kurds.

The Instagram account of Amedspor went live, showing the moment Bursaspor’s players stormed the pitch before the game, starting a fight with their opponents. The account later posted footage of the brawl, calling the incident an “attack” on their team by the Bursaspor players.

Despite the violence, the match went ahead as scheduled, with Bursaspor coming out with a 2-1 win.

The altercations would reportedly continue even after the match was over, with Amedspor social media accounts accusing Bursaspor “private security supervisor, club security officer, club staff, and police officers” of physically attacking the Amedspor players in the dressing room corridors.

The Turkish Football Federation is yet to comment on the situation.

On Saturday night, Bursaspor fans took to the street of the hotel where Amedspor players were staying, shouting racist anti-Kurdish chants and throwing fireworks.

Amedspor has been subjected to several controversies in Turkey for the past few years after it changed its name to reflect the Kurdish name of the city of Diyarbakir, Amed.

The team often faces nationalist and anti-Kurdish chants during their away games, leading to violence.

Amedspor fans threw objects onto the pitch during a match with Bursaspor and chanted pro-Kurdish chants, sparking comments by social media users to claim that Sunday’s incident may have been in retaliation.

In 2017, Amedspor players were attacked by nationalist fans of 1922 Konyaspor after defeating the former in an away match.

In 2016, Amedspor’s player Deniz Naki was banned for 12 games and fined 19,500 Turkish Liras (then around $5000) for “ideological propaganda” after posting a victory message on Facebook.

In September, five people were arrested for raising the Kurdistan flag during an Amedspor game, though they were later released.

The Turkish government often associates Kurdish symbols like the Kurdistan flag to Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), arresting those waving it undre terror charges.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:27 am

Ultranationalist praise racist behavior

The leader of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and government-ally, Devlet Bahceli, saluted the Bursapor fans for their racist behavior during the Amedspor match, in a speech in front of his party’s parliament bloc on Tuesday, prompting a response from co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP).

Bahceli refused to acknowledge the name of Amedspor since it is associated with the millennia-old Kurdish name of the city of Diyarbakir, Amed.

“For us, a place called ‘Amed’ does not exist, and a football team named ‘Amedspor’ will not be talked about [in front of us],” said Bahceli, adding “I want to salute the fans of Bursaspor from here, I congratulate them for their national stance.”

The co-chair of HDP, Pervin Buldan, replied to Bahceli in her speech several hours later.

“Amed exists and will continue to exist. Amedspor exists and will continue to exist. Amedspor will continue to score goals. It is you who will not exist. It is you who will go away in this election. We will send you [home],” said Buldan.

Fans of Bursaspor football team shouted racist and anti-Kurdish slogans and chants ahead of their team’s bout with Amedspor on Sunday, as well as raising banners of paramilitary individuals responsible for kidnapping and killing Kurds in the 1990s.

The Bursaspor players and personnel also physically attacked those of Amedspor before and after the match.

The attack sparked outrage from people all over Turkey, including several political figures in the country.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu called the incident “unacceptable” and stated that an investigation has been initiated against the officials who “showed weakness” in preventing the entry of the controversial posters. Nine people have been arrested over the incidents.

Amedspor players received a warm welcome from avid fans upon their return to Diyarbakir on Monday. (surely the writer meant Amed)

Amedspor has been subjected to several controversies in Turkey for the past few years after it changed its name to reflect the Kurdish name of the city of Diyarbakir, Amed, in 2015.

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