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Ekrem İmamoğlu, the newly elected mayor of İstanbul, has received executives from Amedspor, a football club based in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast, the Bold Medya news website reported. “I had promised to stand with them,” ...
If ethnic tensions in Turkey are reflected on the football pitch, then Amedspor and their Kurdish following are at the very centre of the field. The club represents the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern ...
Enes Kanter celebrates Portland’s Game 7 win over the Denver Nuggets. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Turkish sports broadcaster S Sport will not air the NBA’s Western Conference finals between the Golden State Warriors and Portland Trail ...
Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter had a fantastic game for the Trail Blazers in their 97-90 Game 2 win over the Denver Nuggets in the 2019 NBA Playoffs on Wednesday. But he also had to deal with some hurtful ...
Istanbul Basaksehir’s Emmanuel Adebayor, left, is one of the expensive foreign players plying their trade with the club. EPA Critics say Istanbul Basaksehir’s title challange has been bankrolled by money connected to President Erdogan’s ruling party ...
Wyden has asked Pompeo to advocate for Kanter with the Turkish government, Willamette Week reported. “America cannot and must not stay silent in the face of such a blatant assault on free thought and expression,” Wyden ...
The volatile, longstanding dispute between Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter and Turkish government officials has added another chapter, this time in separate interviews conducted by E:60’s Jeremy Schaap, with Kanter again comparing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...
Enes Kanter might have a new team in the Portland Trail Blazers, but his old obstacles still remain. The Blazers center was not on or anywhere near the court as his team faced the Toronto ...
Felipe Melo refused to shake hands of Demirören during championship ceremony in 2015. Brazilian national football player Felipe Melo reacted on Instagram to the resignation of Turkey’s football chief, stating, “Thank god, the Turkish football’s ...
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Trail Blazers player Enes Kanter during a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the NBA playoffs last month. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images) This morning I woke up at 3, long before sunrise. It is Ramadan. ...