Amed SK

Amed SK, formerly Diyarbakir Buyuksehir Belediyespor, is a Turkish sports club based in Diyarbakir. The football club plays in TFF Second League since 2013-14 season. It is the football club of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The club was established in 1972 and competed in the amateur leagues for many years as Melikahmet Turanspor, because of a sponsorship with Turan Gazozlar. The club colours were red and white. In 1985 the club name changed into Melikahmetspor after the sponsorship had ended.

Diyarbakir municipality bought the club in 1990 and changed its name to "Diyarbakir Belediyespor". In October 2014, they changed their name to "Amedspor" without official approval, and therefore have been fined by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). The objection of the TFF was because of the existence of the original Amedspor, which later on changed its name into Amidaspor. However, when the team changed its name to Amed Sportif Faaliyetler Kulubu, TFF announced that it accepted this new name.

Support

In early 2016, Amedspor pulled off an upset win over Bursaspor to make it into quarterfinals of the Turkish Cup. After this victory their fans were banned from the following match against Fenerbahce S.K. by the TFF. The TFF also suspended their midfielder Deniz Naki 12 games for ideologic, propagandic and unsportmanship Tweets and fined him with 19.500 TL (~6500$). Also the police raided the club's offices taking their computers on suspicion that a politically controversial Tweet might possibly have originated from there.

According to an interview which the German newspaper Die Zeit held with their representatives, the club has some difficulties for being seen as a symbol of sepatarist Kurdish identity by the TFF and Turkish authorities.

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