![]() ![]() In 2013, there was an attempt at resolution between the Kurdish guerilla forces and the Turkish state. Barikat helped push the leaders to call the team Amedspor, itself a political act in a country where, until recently, speaking Kurdish was illegal. The team has been political since inception: a project spearheaded by the popularly elected HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party, or the “People’s government” as the Barikat supporters call it), led by Selahattin Demirtaş, their young, charismatic leader, who has been in prison on political charges since 2016. The Barikat supporters aren’t allowed to have stars on their logos either, a stipulation handed down by a football federation hostile to them and their politics. “Unfortunately, we can’t make our mustaches look like stars.” “You have the full Islamic beard, and the Turkish nationalist mustache which looks like a crescent, and lastly the shorter leftist mustache.” It’s hard to know where the mustache length cut-off is, but “you know it when you see it,” he says. “There are three types of facial hair,” Daran explains. Daran, a young man with a manicured mustache and a navy polo shirt, is the driver, and Rîzgar, bearded, is in the passenger seat. Determined to make the most of this solidarity visit, from one supporters group to another, Barikat organized a packed agenda: meeting the youth supporters and visiting with the founder of the team, who is currently under house arrest.įirst up: the Amedspor training facility to watch the Amedspor women’s game. Our visit was originally planned around attending a home game with members of Barikat, but fans were prohibited from attending that fixture by the federation after an Amedspor fan was seen displaying a Kurdish flag in the stands at a previous game. The team was reconstituted under that name in 2014 and has been playing in the third tier of the Turkish league system ever since, much to the chagrin of the Turkish Football Federation.Ī member of the Amedspor supporter’s group Barikat (Barricade) walks up to meet us their tiny minivan is double-parked across the street. The people we’re waiting for are also fans of the city’s professional soccer team, Amedspor. This is the name the locals often use for their city, which is regarded as the Kurdish capital and animated by the Kurdish freedom struggle. ![]() The Kurdish name for Diyarbakır, which sits near the southeast corner of Turkey, just 70 miles from the Syrian border, is Amed. The people we’re waiting for are Kurdish, as are most of the city’s residents. In one of the city’s parks, the three of us are waiting to meet up with a group of locals who carry those painful memories with them. The city is saturated with these images, and with the memories of the destruction Erdoğan’s regime wrought just five years ago. It’s plastered on the side of buildings, five stories tall, and again on posters flanking the drive from the airport. The face of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s president, is just as inescapable. The white crescent and star on the crimson backdrop is flown in the parks and adorns the bunting along the wide, dusty boulevards. Dont Stop At The Top.DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY - In the city of Diyarbakır, the Turkish flag is everywhere. Imports And Exports gp3, gp4 And gp5 Files. Item: 373247287126 Guitare Scorpions TAB Leçon CD 594 TABS 79 pistes de support + ailier MEGA BONUS. ![]()
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