Panathinaikos asked Samet Akaydın, who posted a photo of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on May 19, to remove the post. Samet Akaydın, who did not remove the post, has been suspended by Panathinaikos.
https://www.milliyet.com.tr/skorer/yunanistanda-skandal-samet-akaydin-karari-ataturk-paylasimi-sonrasu-kadro-disi-7129640
by rogersymyth
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This is dumb. Atatürk is clearly a largely non-controversial figure who promoted global and domestic peace.
Kind of a “what did he even expect?” moment.
WTF💀
Love to Greece from Kurdistan
I agree. Posting the photo of a genocidal maniac should be frowned upon.
Not good Pana. The war between Greece & Turkey ended a century ago, Greece signed a peace treaty literally with Ataturk himself. I can’t imagine a Turkish club suspending a Greek player due to sharing a photo of Venizelos or another Greek statemen from 20th century.
Actual politics are another story tho, sharing Erdogan while he threatening Greece would be stupid for e.g.
It’s not a cool move Pana.
This is a thought crime, and is therefore human rights violation.
The Constitution of Greece, Article 14
1. Every person may express and propagate his thoughts orally, in writing and through the press in compliance with the laws of the State.
For anyone wondering, he’s on loan at Panathinaikos until the end of the season, so he’s gonna miss like one game in total before he rejoins Fenerbahçe.
Is it because Ataturk was born in Thessaloniki and the team is from Athens?
Context: Greeks choose 19th of May as genocide remembrance day in 1994 which is a national holiday in Turkey since 1938. 19th of May is the day Kemal landed on Samsun which is seen as the day Turkish Independence War begun. It is quite common for Kemalists to share pictures of Kemal on holiday.
It seems Kemal is controversial in Greece which is something I did not expect. In 1934 Greek PM nominated Kemal for Nobel of Peace. Fast forward 90 years they see him as responsible for a genocide.
Discrimination? Yes pls
Soccer teams abide to “non-politico”, for obvious reasons with the fans. Now had he posted something else and not taken it down (weird also) they might have taken different course of action.
Ataturk of all the leaders of that period does not deserve this kind of reaction.
When he entered Izmir (Smyrna) he came across a Greek flag laid on the floor, puzzled, he asked the people gathered around him”what is the meaning of this?”
They simply said “when King of Greece entered Izmir, he stepped on Turkish flag as a show of disrespect, this is for you to do the same.”
He got angry and told people; “A flag is the symbol of a nation, it cannot be stepped on, lift it up!”
And if you read the memories of his aides, specially Bozok, he talks about how as they walked around the battlefield Ataturk kept looking at the faces of dead Greek soldiers, and called on his aides, “look how young they are, poor boys.”
English historian Andrew Mango mentions in his book how Ataturk ordered people to get rid of all the paintings of violent depictions of war between Greeks and Turks, he called them “ghastly art” that serves no purpose other than glorify violence.
The whole Anzac memorial about him addressing mothers of Australian and New Zealander soldiers should easily tell anyone he was not a man of hate.
Seems like the Turks posted this on their subreddit and they are now roaming this post. lmao
I bet none of you would ever condemn the genocide.