Politics mixed into football! Crazy footage from Turkey shows firecrackers and even knives flying from the audience during a football match

Turkish football fans are among the most dangerous supporters on the European scene. They proved this during Sunday’s match in the third highest Turkish league, when even knives flew from the stands.

Once again, politics mixed into football caused a furore. The Kurdish football club Amedspor, which changed its name a few years ago to reflect the Kurdish name for the city of Diyarbakir, Amed, is not having an easy time in Turkish football.

In recent years, its players have become a regular target of attacks by Turkish fans. Unfortunately, the political tensions between Turkey and the Kurdish region on the border with Syria are also seeping into sport.

So far, it has mostly remained at the singing of anti-Kurdish songs during matches and insults to Amedspor footballers. However, in Sunday’s match in Turkey’s third highest football league on the ground of Bursaspor, the home fans really went over the top.

Already during the warm-up, some of the fans of the home club invaded the pitch and attacked the warm-up players of Amedspor. However, the match was played despite these warnings and it is amazing that it even lasted the whole 90 minutes.

Videos of the match began to circulate on social media, with water bottles, firecrackers and even a knife found flying onto the pitch. The footage shows Amedspor players being hit by a variety of objects and many even being hit by the aforementioned objects.

But that was by no means all. The Amedspor club even posted on their social media that their players were attacked after the end of the match by the organisers and Bursaspor staff and showed pictures of the injured players.

Thus, the entire team had to be escorted out of the stadium by the police. Fifteenth-placed Bursaspor may have won 2-1 against the third team in the table, but Sunday was definitely not about football.

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