ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the match-fixing investigation at the forefront of the politicisation of Turkish football stands. It aims to analyse the Fenerbahe fans reactions to match-fixing through their use of fan media; principally the blog Papazn ayr. Match-fixing has been a recurring theme in Turkish football over the last two decades. In this period, various rumours about the existence of match-fixing were circulated in the press, although any investigation started by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) about elite division teams were quickly dismissed by legal sections of the Federation. The ingroup favouritism and outgroup defamation in Turkish football fans behaviours are neither exclusive to Fenerbahe fans and/or to the Papazn ayr blog. While micro-nation nationalism helps create ingroup and outgroup classifications, and the lack of transparency in Turkish football, pushes this mentality to a series of conspiracy theories. The decade-long Justice and Development Party (AKP) government period dramatically changed the face of Turkish media.
