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Turkey Related Subjects => Turkey Discussion Forum (Not Calis specifically) => Topic started by: Colwyn on October 25, 2017, 10:10:19 AM

Title: Football v. Erdogan
Post by: Colwyn on October 25, 2017, 10:10:19 AM
In an extraordinary incident protestors in a Galatasaray football crowd unfurled a huge banner of Rocky Balboa calling on Turks to "Rise Up!". The AKP Government is seeing this as an act of insurrection - and no doubt Erdogan will be calling it terrorism. Interesting times in Turkey.

(https://s1.postimg.org/2rgky1tsjf/Balboa.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/2rgky1tsjf/)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-23/turkey-orders-probe-for-banner-at-galatasaray-match-shares-fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivwwauK-1Y
Title: Re: Football v. Erdogan
Post by: Colwyn on October 25, 2017, 10:48:03 AM
On the other hand, the Daily Mail, ever abreast of events, reported: "The biggest talking point of the game came on 73 minutes, when home winger Younes Belhanda was given a second yellow card for diving". The Mail doesn't say whether the AKP Government will be investigating this incident.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5006931/Galatasaray-0-0-Fenerbahce-Linesman-pelted-missiles.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5006931/Galatasaray-0-0-Fenerbahce-Linesman-pelted-missiles.html)
Title: Re: Football v. Erdogan
Post by: stoop on October 25, 2017, 11:00:40 AM
Quote from: Colwyn on October 25, 2017, 10:48:03 AM
On the other hand, the Daily Mail, ever abreast of events, reported: "The biggest talking point of the game came on 73 minutes, when home winger Younes Belhanda was given a second yellow card for diving". The Mail doesn't say whether the AKP Government will be investigating this incident.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5006931/Galatasaray-0-0-Fenerbahce-Linesman-pelted-missiles.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5006931/Galatasaray-0-0-Fenerbahce-Linesman-pelted-missiles.html)

To be fair the Mail article is actually only a football report and the Bloomberg article has this in it:

"In a statement, Galatasaray said the banner and slogans were being taken out of context and that it had received all necessary permissions for displaying them before the match. It criticized those who were “trying to put the names of Galatasaray and the terror organization side-by-side.”"

Sp maybe Bloomberg have the wrong info?
Title: Re: Football v. Erdogan
Post by: Colwyn on October 25, 2017, 11:14:45 AM
Quote from: stoop on October 25, 2017, 11:00:40 AM
Sp maybe Bloomberg have the wrong info?
If they do, then it seems to be the same wrong info that the Turkish Prime Minister's office have got.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-soccer/turkey-to-investigate-galatasarays-rocky-poster-over-coup-links-idUSKBN1CS28C (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-soccer/turkey-to-investigate-galatasarays-rocky-poster-over-coup-links-idUSKBN1CS28C)