The operations of the Turkish police against soccer fans unfurling a banner in solidarity with hunger striking educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça continue. 10 more soccer fans unfurling a banner saying 'Let Nuriye and Semih Live' during the Turkish Super Cup Final have been detained on August 16.
While 17 soccer fans had been taken into custody last week due to holding banners in support of Gülmen and Özakça, one of them had been arrested.
The Turkish government indicted the fans, who unfurled solidarity banners for two dismissed educators on hunger strike, for ‘terrorist propaganda’.
The authorities had not allowed the fans to enter the stadium with banners with pro-secularist slogans in the Turkish Super Cup Final Match between Beşiktaş and Konyaspor on August 6, 2017, as the Konyaspor fans brawled on the pitch with knives.
Despite the detainment and arrest of the fans unfurling a banner in solidarity with hunger striking educators, it is remarkable that the authorities did not take any legal action on pro-government Konyaspor fans who had entered the pitch with knives and many sharp objects.
