"football, Turkish-style
January 2, 2007
Europe > Turkey > Istanbul
Turkey's been quiet lately. This has especially been the case for the past few days, because a lot of people used the four-day religious holiday of Kurban Bayrami (which this year happens to coincide with New Year's) as an excuse to get out of Istanbul for a little while. Yet there's another reason as well: professional football (or soccer, if to you 'football' conjures up images of helmets and oblong balls) is on a month-long winter break. Like in most other European countries, football is MASSIVE in Turkey, and the passion for the game and teams here runs probably at least as deep as it does England, Spain or Italy."
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