Or something far worse/ There's some reet nutters around. Shots have been fired at a bus carrying Turkey's Fenerbahce soccer team, injuring at least one person, according to the club. Reports on Fenerbahce TV said the driver had been injured after the bus came under repeated attack from a shotgun. The driver was hit in the face and taken to hospital, the club's vice president Mahmut Uslu, who was on the bus at the time, said. He accused the attackers of trying to "crash the bus and kill the players". http://news.sky.com/story/1458872/gunshots-fired-at-fenerbahce-football-team-bus
If that had been in England all our teams would have been banned out of all club and international competitions for five years. Catch the f*ckers tie them up, lay them down on the road and let the coach driver drive and reverse over them until they die. PS, in answer to the question Comm, no I would not call that football violence that's a premeditated attack. Attempted murder imo.
Nothing to do with football violence, Turkey has been a melting pot for terrorism a long time now. I believe it will be the same group that attacked the police station in Turkey last week.
Apparently the Turks spend hours in the stadium going through their various rituals to the extent that the football is secondary. Why we call them Europeans I'll never know. (No geography observations please).
Been on the wrong end of a 12 bore shotgun outside Dun Cow in Seaham. Apparently gunman wanted to kill bouncer who kicked the **** out his brother the night before. All I was doing was sitting outside pub waiting for it to open. So not confined to turkey.
A British national has reportedly been arrested in Turkey during a crackdown on a banned left-wing group, members of which took a prosecutor hostage at an Istanbul court. Mehmet Selim Kiraz and the hostage-takers from DHKP-C - which is listed as a terrorist group by the US, EU and Turkey - were killed when police moved in to end the siege. Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah said a 52-year-old British national of Polish origin was accused of having "close ties" with the organisation. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "I can confirm that a British national has been arrested in Turkey and that we are offering consular assistance." The arrest came as a Turkish prosecutor ordered internet providers to block social media sites, including Twitter and YouTube. During the hostage-taking, images of one of DHKP-C members pointing a gun at the head of Mr Kiraz were posted online, alongside demands for police officers allegedly named in the investigation into the death of a 13-year-old boy hit by a tear gas canister to confess. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said: "This has to do with the publishing of the prosecutor's picture. What happened in the aftermath (of the prosecutor's killing) is as grim as the incident itself. "The demand from the prosecutor's office is that this image not be used anywhere in electronic platforms." Some users reported that providers had complied with the prosecutor's request, but access to the sites did not appear to have been taken down across the board. "We are aware of reports of interruption of our service in Turkey, and we are working to restore access for our users as soon as possible," Twitter said in Turkish and in English on its @policy account. DHKP-C, which wants a socialist state, has carried out a number of attacks, including a suicide bombing on the US Embassy in 2013 that killed a security guard.
It's a bit like Israel innit, in the Euros. I'm not sure the Israelis would be very welcome in the middle east equivalent I don't like it when we draw Turkish clubs in Europe, and by we I mean all English clubs, they just don't know how to do sport over there, it's all either corrupt or violent, or in most cases, both.
Turkey is a huge country with such diverse cultures..I have visited the South West of the country many times, and found the locals to as friendly and accommodating as anywhere that I have visited across Europe...However, the huge city of Istanbul (around 15 million population) is a city that most certainly has more than it's fair share of trouble at this present time..The East of the country boarders some of the rogue states of the world and is influenced by that fact... My take on it is that Turkey is probably the most important country in the world regarding the fight against Islamic fundamentalism, and it is essential that we do everything to keep them on side..
For me, if Turkey was to go down the fundamentalist route it would be an absolute disaster..So far they have been the most moderate of all the Islamic countries which I put largely down to the legacy of Aturturk..However, there has been some worrying developments in recent years which have moved the country towards Islamic rule..
Well Turkey certainly has its own problems.. I went there once, many moons ago, what a ****ing ****hole...never again.. tomatoes with everything..and i ****ing hate tomatoes...
Tomatoes. Turkey is mental, Istanbul taxi drivers are ****ing psychopaths. The the ones you need on your side are the Saudis, they don't **** about getting things done. See a bunch of Rads ****ing about in Saudi launching rockets they'd be obliterated in the street within an hour. I agree with RAW though, location wise, Turkey are a very important middle man, the world needs them to stay that way.
