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Turkish football coach attacked by fans after trainer’s anti-ISIL tweets
hurriyet daily news ^ | October/15/2014

Posted on 10/16/2014 4:58:38 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin

A group of Sarıyer supporters attacked coach Turhan Özyazanlar on Oct. 14 outside the club’s facilities as he was trying to defend trainer Erdal Elgörmüş (L). The coach of Sarıyer, a third-division football team headquartered on Istanbul’s Bosphorus, was beaten by fans after the team’s goalkeeper trainer posted messages on social media decrying atrocities committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Kobane.

A groups of Sarıyer supporters attacked coach Turhan Özyazanlar on Oct. 14 outside the club’s facilities as he was trying to defend trainer Erdal Elgörmüş.

Ergörmüş, who was born in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern province of Diyarbakır, shared Facebook posts in favor of the Kurdish forces and standing against ISIL’s advance on Kobane, a Syrian town by the Turkish border.

Fans reacted negatively to the posts, asking Sarıyer’s management to remove Ergörmüş from duty. The attack on Özyazanlar at the club’s facilities came after the club’s management rejected the supporters’ demand to discharge Ergörmüş.

Özyaranlar was taken to hospital after the attack.

Özyazanlar said he had no connection to politics and had been unfairly attacked. “I am ashamed to be on the agenda with such an issue. This situation devastates me. Everyone should respect each other no matter what line of politics they come from. I don’t have any connections to politics, I’m a sportsman,” he said.

Country-wide protests against the ISIL attack on Kobane and Ankara’s policies on the issue were held last week, leaving at least 35 dead and hundreds wounded.

Özyazanlar, who has headed many teams in the second and third divisions, clinched his third league title with Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyespor in 2013, leading the underdogs to the top of the Turkish second division, one year before becoming a runner-up in the Turkish first division.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isil; isis; islam; rop; soccer; turkey
No wonder the Turks are bombing Kurds
1 posted on 10/16/2014 4:58:38 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin
But they keep telling us that ISIS was unpopular among ordinary moslems. Yeah, right…
2 posted on 10/16/2014 5:01:47 AM PDT by cartan
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To: cartan

Gog and Magog - Modern day Turkey. God is pulling them into Armageddon. He is “turning them back” from modern Kemalism (Ataturk) back to vicious Islam:

Ezekiel 38

38 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.


3 posted on 10/16/2014 5:12:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Sounds like Ferguson....
4 posted on 10/16/2014 5:17:22 AM PDT by dasboot
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Islam and soccer: a deadly combination.


5 posted on 10/16/2014 5:20:18 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

As many FReepers know, THE TURKS ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS. They voted in Islamists as their national leaders and are conducting a slow genocide against the KURDS. The Kurds may, other than Israel and Egypt, be the only friends we have in the Mid East.


6 posted on 10/16/2014 5:33:49 AM PDT by House Atreides (ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
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To: cartan

bttt


7 posted on 10/16/2014 6:09:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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