"Nobel winner Pamuk says Turkish football fosters nationalism
Hamburg - Nobel prizewinning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk says football in Turkey serves nationalist and xenophobic thinking, but he would still be supporting the country's team at Euro 2008. Pamuk said in an interview with the Germany's weekly Der Spiegel magazine that football in Turkey had become "a machine for the production of nationalism, xenophobia and authoritarian thought.""
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