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Monday, January 15, 2024
Turkish soccer club faces pressure to take action against second Israeli player
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMichael Bachner is a news editor at The Times of Israel
Following the arrest of Sagiv Jehezkel, the İstanbul Başakşehir soccer club is facing pressure on Turkish social media to take action against a second Israeli soccer player in the Turkish top league, Eden Kartsev, who published an Instagram story identifying with the Gaza hostages and echoing the slogan calling to “Bring them home now.”
Şaka gibi arkadaş, Başakşehir Kulübü, Sagiv Jehezkel ile benzer şekilde bir paylaşım yapan Eden Karzev'in savunmasını istemiş,
yol ver gitsin ne savunması ? @ibfk2014 pic.twitter.com/9XHByiqiaw
— Mehmet Ardıç ???????? (@MehmetArdic_) January 15, 2024
The fan club for Başakşehir, a favorite club of Erdogan’s, wrote on X: “We do not want Zionist supporters who disregard the values and sensitivities of our country.”
After initially ignoring the issue, Başakşehir says in a statement that it has launched a “disciplinary probe” against Kartsev, alleging that he had “violated the club’s disciplinary rules by publishing an Instagram post that harms sensitive values of our country, and we expect a written defense by the player on the matter.”
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