Fatma Aydın, the mother of Amedspor player Oktay Aydın, was taken into custody at the stadium in Amed for failing to stand during the Turkish national march.
On Sunday, the Kurdish football club Amedspor was playing at home in Amed, in the stadium named after the murdered human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi in Amed. Just before the match, Turkish police arrested Fatma Aydın, the mother of player Oktay Aydin, because she did not stand up due to pain in her legs. She was taken to a police station in Amed and then released.
Nationalist reprisals against Kurds
On 10 September, similar reprisals took place against Kurdish fans who refused to stand during the Turkish national anthem at the football match between Amedspor and Düzcespor. Two weeks earlier, at the match between Amedspor and Sarıyerspor, twelve people were arrested for the same reason.
Amedspor fans were charged with “publicly denigrating the emblems of the state.” The arrested people were brought before the magistrate and released under judicial supervision pending trial.
