Turkish soccer fans boo moment of silence for Paris bombing, crowd chants

[Nick Young]

I don't care about the video. He was calling me an ISIS supporter and Turkish, which are both bullshit.

Also, I couldn't care less about that website. Seems like a bunch of angry bigots on there, check the comments. Use your brain and think for yourself instead of having shitty sites like that feed you "news".

You aren't a Turk now? What happened? Did you become Azerbaijani?

[pauk]

May have something to do with the fact that FIFA/Western Ignored / didnt hold a minute of a silence for the recent Ankara Bombing by ISIS and all other victims before and now even after Paris (thats just in Turkey, not to mention allover the world, 100% ignored), im sure they want a moment of silence, but for everybody, why is another specific life more precious, kindof condractive a fan in those stands might think...

[fiddy]

May have something to do with the fact that FIFA/Western Ignored / didnt hold a minute of a silence for the recent Ankara Bombing by ISIS and all other victims before and now even after Paris (thats just in Turkey, not to mention allover the world, 100% ignored), im sure they want a moment of silence, but for everybody, why is another specific life more precious, kindof condractive a fan in those stands might think...

Doesnt make sense. the ISIS bombing in Turkey targeted kurds ("incidentally"), if anything Turks are celebrating those bombings.

[pauk]

Doesnt make sense. the ISIS bombing in Turkey targeted kurds ("incidentally"), if anything Turks are celebrating those bombings.

102 random people died there, most of who were Turkish... some Kurds perhaps... all muslims...

Before that ISIS claimed many other victims in Turkey & thereabouts... Turks, Kurds, Europeans, Americans. etc.... they dont care...

Yes, they should celebrate... the only one who may have celebrated this (aside from ISIS) is you you ignorant & disrespectful moron, sorry but you really are.

[ArbitraryWater]

Use common sense, I'd feel shitty too if the same bombings happen in 'my country', and no one gave a shit...

if one wants to exlude Turkey from the EU I'd have no problem with that, but this ain't one of the reasons.

[fiddy]

102 random people died there, most of who were Turkish... some Kurds perhaps... all muslims...

Before that ISIS claimed many other victims in Turkey & thereabouts... Turks, Kurds, Europeans, Americans. etc.... they dont care...

Yes, they should celebrate... the only one who may have celebrated this (aside from ISIS) is you you ignorant & disrespectful moron, sorry but you really are.

Oh please, save it. Turks hate kurds and are documented to support ISIS.

Use common sense, I'd feel shitty too if the same bombings happen in 'my country', and no one gave a shit...

if one wants to exlude Turkey from the EU I'd have no problem with that, but this ain't one of the reasons.

Thats not common sense, no one gave a minute of silence for the victims of the Russian plan in Egypt, or project colors of the russian flag on the white house or other important buildings. So what? Think of it this way, the bombing happened in "my country", but majority of the victims are citizens that want to break away and establish their "own country".

[LJJ]

Perhaps. But Turks are unique in that they seem to think they are European. Iranians/Iraquis/Saudis etc. dont do that.

Iranians and Saudis don't think they are European (well, the Iranians arguably do, in a way), but they certainly do think they are culturally and racially superior to all the other Muslim people in their vicinity. Much like the Turks.

[brownmamba00]

It's shameful no way of excusing this but the crowd was yelling 'martyrs don't die' pointing at the fact that 100s died in Ankara. Protesting how nobody in the world or even in Turki gave much attention to it...Erdogan has people tensed up it's getting more violent every day.


In no way is the crowd supporting ISIS tho just because they yell allah akbar dont mean they are terrorists.

[JohnnySic]

Iranians and Saudis don't think they are European (well, the Iranians arguably do, in a way), but they certainly do think they are culturally and racially superior to all the other Muslim people in their vicinity. Much like the Turks.

Yeah true.

[ALBballer]

It's shameful no way of excusing this but the crowd was yelling 'martyrs don't die' pointing at the fact that 100s died in Ankara. Protesting how nobody in the world or even in Turki gave much attention to it...Erdogan has people tensed up it's getting more violent every day.


In no way is the crowd supporting ISIS tho just because they yell allah akbar dont mean they are terrorists.

Yelling Allah Akbar doesn't mean you are a terrorist but yelling allah akbar during a moment of silence for the people that died in Paris is probably not a good look. Imagine if christians were yelling Hail Jesus in the moment of silence for the death of Muslims.

In addition, it's possible that some of the far right Turks were supporting ISIS since they are fighting the Kurds.

[NumberSix]

Yelling Allah Akbar doesn't mean you are a terrorist but yelling allah akbar during a moment of silence for the people that died in Paris is probably not a good look. Imagine if christians were yelling Hail Jesus in the moment of silence for the death of Muslims.

In addition, it's possible that some of the far right Turks were supporting ISIS since they are fighting the Kurds.

Do Tuks even have a concept of "moment of silence" though? Maybe they don't know that custom?

[LJJ]

Do Tuks even have a concept of "moment of silence" though? Maybe they don't know that custom?

They are not dumb people with no basic sense. They know perfectly well what a minute of silence is and what it stands for, and they are perfectly capable of doing it.

They also are perfectly aware of the implication of yelling "Allah Akbar" en masse while being asked to hold silence to commemorate the largely non-Muslim victims of Islamic terror.

[masonanddixon]

Turkey is a messed up country. Still have never formally recognised or taken responsibilty for the Armenian genocide.

[fiddy]

Turkey is a messed up country. Still have never formally recognised or taken responsibilty for the Armenian genocide.

Its not only the Armenians, they have committed borderline genocide against everyone in the Balkans (including us).

[masonanddixon]

Its not only the Armenians, they have committed borderline genocide against everyone in the Balkans (including us).

Yes Turkey is a generally ****ed up country.