First up, a disclaimer: I love football — or soccer for those who insist to be American about it — and have been a Galatasaray fan my whole life. So any favorable sentiment you might detect toward the supporter group Carsi (pronounced char-shi) profiled in this article, has nothing to do with team colors. Indeed, the group represents a rival Istanbul club, Besiktas. Their blood runs black and white reportedly; mine, on the other hand, is pure yellow and red — of course!
I am only half-kidding. Not many things in the world can be as equally forceful in uniting people and breaking them apart as football is in Turkey.
