Amedspor: Not Going on Match without Fans

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AmedSK* (Amed Sports Club) paired with Fenerbahçe to play on the quarter final of the Turkish Cup has announced three hours after the pair off draw that they would not go out for the match in case the punishment of playing without audience given by Professional Football Discipline Committee (PFDK) would be put into practice.

PFDK had imposed a punishment of playing without audience on one game on charges of ideological cheerings of the team’s fans on the game against Başakşehirspor earlier. The chanting slogan was as follows:

The barricade is here, stands not to collapse…

Everywhere Sur, everywhere resistance...

Everywhere Cizre, everywhere resistance...

Don’t let the children die, so they also can come to the play.

Police raid on the sports club’s building

Besides a police raid has been carried out on the building of the sports club. The raid has been reasoned by a tweet which later turned out not to have been sent by the Twitter account of the club. Police from Diyarbakır Anti-Terror department has carried out the raid and seized the hard disks of the computers in the club premises and later conducted another raid to the administration building in Talaytepe where the football players had been staying.

*AmedSK is a sports club based in Diyarbakır playing in the Turkish Football Federation Second League. The club had changed its name from Diyarbakır Büyükşehir (Metropolitan Municipality) Belediyespor to AmedSK  adopting the Kurdish name for Diyarbakır province in October 2014 due to which it has been sentenced to a fine by the Turkish Football Federation. (EKN/DG)