Amedspor football club in Turkiye fined for pro-Kurdish ‘propaganda’

Turkish Football Federation fines second-division rubric favourites Amedspor and suspends president for societal media video.

Turkiye’s main Kurdish shot squad has been fined for “ideological propaganda” successful favour of Kurdish forces successful bluish Syria, the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has said.

Amedspor FC, which is based successful Diyarbakir, the main metropolis successful the Kurdish-majority southeast, was fined 802,500 Turkish lira (nearly $18,500) and its president slapped with a 15-day suspension from each shot activity, the TFF said successful a connection precocious connected Thursday.

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At contented was a 20-second clip connected its societal media accounts showing a pistillate having her hairsbreadth braided acceptable to a soundtrack featuring the wide utilized Kurdish slogan “Jin, jiyan, azadi” – which means “Woman, life, freedom”.

Over the past week, hairsbreadth braiding has go a symbolic amusement of solidarity with Syrian Kurds arsenic Damascus has pressed a subject violative successful northeastern areas formerly portion of the Kurds’ de facto autonomous administration.

In caller weeks, societal media has been awash with clips of women braiding their hairsbreadth successful effect to a video showing a Syrian worker holding up a plait helium claimed to person chopped from a pistillate Kurdish combatant successful Raqqa that was precocious taken by the Syrian military.

Although the assertion could not beryllium independently verified, it caused an online backlash.

The TFF said the nine was blameworthy of “damaging the estimation of football” by “making ideological propaganda”.

Contacted by AFP, Amedspor President Nahit Eren said helium had appealed against the decision, but made nary further comment.

Eren – erstwhile caput of the Diyarbakir Bar Association – had connected Tuesday posted connected X astir “efforts to embroil our nine successful assorted controversies”.

Currently apical of the 2nd division, Amedspor could beryllium promoted this twelvemonth to Turkiye’s top-flight Super Lig for the archetypal clip successful their history.