Fans of the Turkish Galatasaray team in solidarity with the city of Jerusalem, which is experiencing the consequences of the storming of the Al-Aqsa mosque by the Israeli occupation authorities, attacks on believers and isolation.
During Galatasaray’s match against Istanbul Basaksehir, which took place yesterday, Wednesday at the Ali Sami Yan Sports Stadium, in the quarter-finals of the Turkish Cup competition, fans raised a large banner from the stands on one side of the stadium. stadium and wrote on it: “If Jerusalem is not free, the world is in captivity.”
💢 Galatasaray Taraftari 🇹🇷
🇵🇸 “Kudüs özgür değilse
🌍 Dunya tutsaktır” pankartı açtı 🤲 pic.twitter.com/W0cdWhnmkI– Erdem Ozveren (@ErdemOzveren571) April 5, 2023
The Turkish team’s initiative received a response on social media, with Arab and Turkish singers confirming that the situation is not surprising to Galatasaray fans and Turkish fans in general.
This stance is not strange for Turkish clubs who always show their support for the Palestinian cause and Jerusalem and reject the Israeli occupation and its repeated attacks on the Palestinian people.
Source: Arabic Post