Turkish football fans boo, chant 'God is Great' during one-minute silence for Paris attack victims

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Nov 18, 2015, 01:37 PM IST

Turkish fans during the Turkey-Greece friendly

The reported incident took place during a Turkey-Greece men's soccer friendly attended by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras.

In a troubling incident, fans at a football game in the Turkish city of Istanbul booed when a minute's silence was being observed for victims of the Paris attacks, reports Reuters. Some also chanted Allah-u-Akbar (God is Great).

The reported incident took place during a Turkey-Greece men's soccer friendly attended by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras.

Here's a video. The booing and chanting are audible.

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It was the first time the two teams had met for eight years and the Turkish Football Federation had announced a string of additional security measures before the match at the Istanbul Basaksehir stadium.

Turkey went on to draw the match 0-0.

Islamic State (IS) militants struck Paris on Saturday, killing at least 132 and injuring many more. On Wednesday, a police officer was killed in Paris during a raid on an alleged terrorist hideout in northern Paris. A female suicide bomber also perished.

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