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How Racism And Sexism Permeate Turkish Soccer - All News Is Global

How Racism And Sexism Permeate Turkish Soccer

ISTANBUL — Racism and discrimination have become a constant in Turkey's top soccer league. The latest reminder are tweets from Umit Cinarli’s, a leading referee from the Turkish Football Federation (TFF), on the second anniversary of the Uludere Massacre where Turkish fighter jet bombs killed 34 Kurdish smugglers: “Happy second anniversary of the Uludere incident. The dead mules were worthier than you,” Cinarli wrote in the tweet.

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