By James M. Dorsey With electoral upsets having become the norm, the latest upheaval that last week swept aside the long-standing...

By James M. Dorsey The opening of a court case against Turkish soccer star Hakan Sukur on charges of insulting the president takes Recep...

By James M. Dorsey Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dresses up his increasing authoritarianism with nationalist and religious...

By James M Dorsey The escalating Turkish-Russian crisis following Turkey’s downing in November of a Russian war plane promises to spill...

By James M. Dorsey Turkish soccer has offered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more headaches than likely votes as the Turkish leader...

Tayip Recep Erdogan helps carry the coffin of Ulker founder Sabri Ulker to its final resting place in 2012 By James M. Dorsey Turkish...

Carsi demonstrates in Besikats By James M. Dorsey Militant supporters of Istanbul’s top three soccer clubs added muscle to thousands of...

Hakan Sukur Stadium no more By James M. Dorsey Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan, fresh from a resounding victory in municipal...

Aziz Yildirim during mass anti-government protest By James M. Dorsey A stocky military contractor and football club president convicted...

Fenerbahce fans protest By James M. Dorsey Always murky, Turkish soccer politics have become even murkier as a politics-laden...

Aziz Yildirim: Culprit, Pawn or Victim? By James M. Dorsey When Aziz Yildirim, the head of Turkey’s foremost soccer club, Fenerbahce SK,...

Besiktas fans invade the pitch By James M. Dorsey Much like the Muslim Brotherhood, militant soccer fans in Egypt and Turkey are fighting...

By James M. Dorsey Turkish soccer pitches have reasserted themselves as political battlefields following the death of a protester and the...

By James M. Dorsey Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has announced a series of measures to prevent soccer stadiums...

Soccer & Society Volume 14, Issue 5, 2013 Special Issue: Football in Asia Select Language​▼ Translator disclaimer The politics of...

By James M. Dorsey Turkish interior minister Muammer Güler has banned the chanting of political slogans during the country’s next soccer...

By James M. Dorsey Militant, highly politicized soccer fans who played key roles in the toppling of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak,...