Post-Gezi Revenge politics. Today’s agenda: Koç Holding?s national warship contract cancelled, Police Detains Soccer Fans…

Istanbul police detain fans in dawn operation over eventful derby Istanbul police have carried out a dawn operation against fans of three major football team Police Detains Soccer Fans Police raided several apartments this morning, detaining around 80 soccer fans from Beşiktaş, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe teams including Alen Markaryan (Beşiktaş) and Sefa Kalya (Genç Fenerbahçeliler). … Read more

After Fenerbahçe, Before Manchester United game, best Beşiktaş videos…

Last Saturday we had an unexpectedly good win over Fenerbahçe: 3-0. Today we meet against Manchester United in an away game. Although our defensive line is surprisingly successful in the Turkish Super League (the least goal conceding team at the moment), I just hope we won’t concede more than 5 goals tonight:) At the very end, there is roundup on both games and of course any video recommendations are welcome…

Pyroshow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmbrvV3Y1hU

 

A good collection of Beşiktaş songs/chants:

 

Beşiktaş fans in FB away game:

 

 

Besiktas' supporters club - Carsi

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Crackdown on (Çarşı) Beşiktaş fans- Hypocrisy in Turkish football

Beşiktaş Fans in Action

As of now, 36 Beşiktaş fans are banned from the stadiums for a year. Some fan leaders like Alen Markaryan are among the banned fans. Official reason is that they were “swearing”. Istanbul Police Deparment detained, interrogated, worked on the security cameras and the concluded on the ban. This is a crackdown executed by the alliance of Istanbul police and Beşiktaş administration. It is intended to destroy our famous fandom. Yıldırım Demirören, whom I name the worst Beşiktaş president ever, had a few weeks ago stated to “clean the stadium” and this is what he does now. Yes, in the last game, some fans began to swear at him but Mr. Demirören cannot tolerate any level of criticism and he does not hide his intention of “cleaning”.  After his statement, there happened to be fights in the stadiums and pro-Demirören gangs were rumored to terrorize anti-Demirören. Where the hell Police Deparment was then?

Çarşı and Greenpeace with a huge placard, standing against a possible nuclear power plant establishment in Turkey (Wikipedia)

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