Turkey

Dağhan Irak; Jean François Polo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78777-0_33

Turkey

Dağhan Irak, Jean François Polo

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Abstract

Football is the most popular sport in Turkey through its success, its excesses, its prestigious victories. Imported by European foreigners at the end of the nineteenth century, practiced secretly by Muslim elites, it became in a few decades the symbol of the nation fighting against the external enemies, against a threatening Europe. Turkish football is also known for the passion of its supporters for the national team or club teams. The matches between the “Big Threes”, (Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş) are considered among the most spectacular derbies in the world that sometimes trigger violent clashes between fans. The place of football in Turkey is such that it constitutes an area particularly invested by politicians and thus reflects the major debates of Turkish society and the persistence of a strong nationalism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics
Editors	Jean-Michel De Waele, Suzan Gibril, Ekaterina Gloriozova, Ramón Spaaij
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	659-676
Number of pages	18
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319787770
ISBN (Print)	9783319787763, 9783030076467
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78777-0_33
Publication status	Published - 22 May 2018
Externally published	Yes

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