NEWSPAPER PRINTS AZERBAIJANI FLAG ON ITS COVER FOR ARMENIA-TURKEY FOOTBALL MATCH

Tert.am
12:37 17.10.09

The news that flags other than those of the two competing teams
during the Armenia-Turkey football match were prohibited brought
about serious concerns among ultra-nationalists.

As Tert.am’s correspondent reports from Bursa, the Turkish right-wing
newspaper Yenicag ("New Times"), in order to please Azerbaijani
fans attending the football match, decided to be sly by printing the
Azerbaijani flag on its cover page of its issue published on the day
of the match.

Thus it came to be that instead of the prohibited flags, football
fans could simply buy a copy of Yenicag and take it with them into
the stadium. But the sly idea amounted to not much, since the ban
on Azerbaijani flags was repealed and the paper’s daily sales didn’t
break a record.