{"id":15580,"date":"2009-10-20T20:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15580"},"modified":"2023-07-26T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:25:48","slug":"baku-protests-ban-on-flag-at-bursa-soccer-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/20\/baku-protests-ban-on-flag-at-bursa-soccer-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Baku Protests Ban On Flag At Bursa Soccer Match"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Protesters wave Azerbaijani flags during a demonstration against Turkish relations with Armenia near the Ataturk Stadium in Bursa on October 14.<\/div>\n
October 20, 2009<\/div>\n
BAKU — Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry summoned Turkish Charge d’Affaires Nihat Civaneri to complain about the ban of Azerbaijan’s national flag at the historic Turkish-Armenian soccer match in Bursa last week, RFE\/RL’s Azerbaijani Service reports.<\/p>\n

Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov officially expressed his country’s protest over Turkey’s “disrespect to Azerbaijan’s national flag.”<\/p>\n

The Turkish and Armenian soccer teams met in Bursa on October 14, with Turkish and Armenian leaders present.<\/p>\n

The event became a symbol of the recent historic breakthrough in relations between Ankara and Yerevan.<\/p>\n

Bursa’s governor initially banned Azerbaijan’s national flag at the stadium during the match, but, after numerous protests, he rescinded his order.<\/p>\n

However, at the last moment, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) demanded that Azerbaijani flags not be allowed during the match.<\/p>\n

Some fans who sought to ignore the ban clashed with law enforcement officers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Protesters wave Azerbaijani flags during a demonstration against Turkish relations with Armenia near the Ataturk Stadium in Bursa on October 14. October 20, 2009 BAKU — Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry summoned Turkish Charge d’Affaires Nihat Civaneri to complain about the ban of Azerbaijan’s national flag at the historic Turkish-Armenian soccer match in Bursa last week, RFE\/RL’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,89],"tags":[2129],"class_list":["post-15580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-turkey","tag-turkey-and-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}