What you think or what I think doesn't matter. I will write one long post and close topic on my side, I didn't see it, neither I am defending it because I have no idea what happened there, truth is, he wasn't even a Gala fan, we know full name of murderer and other person helped him (this one was a Gala fan), since it was in all the news without regular censoring, anyway it was another team fan but I won't give their name because I don't want to label them. My first post was a warning about upcoming backlash and then I followed up with how Turkish people perceive event and flag. You already see it Acun's reaction post, amount of view numbers on Hull tweet reaching 700Ks and newspaper are presenting it as flash news: "Acun banned Turkish flag". Most of the nation believes below statement of murderer, again I am not saying that it is correct, but perception is that, I will share statement it in the end but first more about flag sensitivity of nation.
First Acun part and flag, Acun is bound to Turkish laws that includes law of flag, a small part of article 7 of Law of Flag clearly states: "The Turkish Flag shall not be insulted or shown disrespect by speech, writing, action or any other means". It doesn't matter if event happens in UK or on the other side of world, you can understand seriousness of offence against flag from how hastily he responded in the middle of night, if all newspapers starts to write "Acun banned Turkish flag" as I shared, you know you are in deep ****. The notion of flag is very different in Turkey than UK and disrespect can be very lenient things that you won't even notice during the day (I will give Nato example below, simply putting flag on ground considered as disrespect same article 7 states: It shall not be put on places where people sit or stand.). I don't expect you comprehend it easily of course, but as an example I am not even living there for two decades, my Turkish is fading every day more and more, but even I know entire national anthem is dedicated to flag, 41 very very long verses only about flag, part you hear during national team games is only 8 verses, first 4 is about star of the flag and next 4 is about crescent of flag. It is forbidden to wear it as clothing, it is forbidden to leave it on ground, even during battle closest soldier should stop fighting and collect it, otherwise you can face measures (normally fine is more lenient and only monetary, but depending on situation it can elevate to treason charges, and I mean it, there are example cases) etc. etc., huge deal there. I will provide you a proof about seriousness of this law how Turks are embodied it: you can see Erdogan or any Turkish official is collecting Turkish flag during NATO and EU events when they put it as a sign on ground to mark where they should stand:
A tiktok video from a news channel:
https://www.tiktok.com/@haber7com/video/7283061706958425350
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Statement of murderer to understand why flag is a sensitive topic, especially in this case and why it put Acun in a though position with a simple tweet:
"My uncle and 4 friends and I went to Taksim around 18:00-19:00 as we always do. There was a restaurant that we always hung out at, which is no longer in service. We were sitting at the tables outside. There was a bar two rows down from where we were sitting. A group of 15-20 hooligans from Leeds were leaving that bar and coming towards the area where we were sitting. It was obvious from their strange behavior that they had drunk a lot of alcohol. "
- What kind of strange thing are you talking about?
"They were harassing women and girls on the road. They started throwing alcohol bottles at the restaurant 2 rows away from us. They were damaging bus stops and taxis. Then they started pulling down their pants and rubbing the Turkish flag on their genitals. They were also swearing at Turkish citizens passing by. They harassed a young girl there very badly. Then, a fight broke out. Because Turkish citizens also started to react to this behavior of the hooligans. "
- How did you intervene in the incident?
"When my uncle saw two hooligans rubbing the Turkish flag on his genitals and crushing it under their feet, he could not stand it anymore and stood up and headbutted a hooligan. Thereupon, all the Leeds fans attacked my uncle from behind. They stabbed my uncle in the leg."
