How Turkey’s Best Women’s Football Team Deals with Discrimination
By Piotr Zalewski / HakkariApril 08, 2013Add a Comment
Tahir Temel shuffles across the artificial turf, yelling at a defender and dodging errant free kicks, and points towards a soaring snow-covered mountain soaring over the field, some five miles east of Hakkari. Last summer, from where he stood in the middle of the town’s soccer field, one could see militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), ensconced in the mountaintops, and Turkish soldiers, stationed on lower ground, exchanging fire. “It made for quite a show,” Temel says, humorlessly.
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