‘We are here’: Kurdish club Amedspor shakes up Turkish football
Al Jazeera · Patrick Keddie ·
The Diyarbakir-based club have risen from the third tier to a top-of-the-table clash in the Turkish Super Lig.
The Diyarbakir-based club have risen from the third tier to a top-of-the-table clash in the Turkish Super Lig.
Ten years ago, as parts of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkiye were reduced to rubble in battles between the military and Kurdish fighters, the city’s main football club, Amedspor, became a target.
Diyarbakir is the biggest Kurdish-majority city in Turkiye, and Amedspor, then in the third tier, had become a standard bearer of Kurdish identity.
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