# Amedspor History: Origins, Name and Color Changes - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2102021837676785733 - Source language: Turkish - Target language: English - Duration: 2:59 - Published: 2026-09-21 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/tr/amedspor-un-tarihi-kurulu%C5%9Fu-i%CC%87sim-ve-renk-de%C4%9Fi%C5%9Fiklikleri.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes) Whenever there is an opening in Turkey, a football failure from Diyarbakır takes the stage. There is football in every opening. [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=5) Today, in 2026, Amedspor was promoted to the Süper Lig. [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=9) In the 2009 opening, Diyarbakırspor was promoted to the Süper Lig. [0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=12) Today, um, the sports club pronounced as Amedspor has the original name, meaning its founding name, Melik Ahmet Turanspor. [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=20) It was founded in Diyarbakır's Melik Ahmet neighborhood. [0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=22) This club was named after the neighborhood. Melek Ahmet Pasha was born in Istanbul. [0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=26) He was a Turk of Caucasian descent on both his mother's and father's side. [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=29) Melek Ahmet Pasha was pure Oghuz stock. So, if we absolutely have to discuss Amedspor's ethnic origins, the people who gave the club its founding name are pure Turks, brother. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=39) We've explained Melik Ahmet. So what is Turanspor? Where does it come from? [0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=42) The Turan in Turanspor is a soda brand. Yes, now please hold tight. [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=46) Why are the Turan sodas called Turan? Is the owner named Turan? No. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=50) So what does Turan mean? A political view advocating the unity of all Turkic peoples in the world, all Ural-Altaic peoples. [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=58) Now, please brace yourselves. The founding colors of Amedspor, which is now presented as the Kurdistan national team and the like, were what, do you know? They were red and white. [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=66) Yes. Five years later, in 1990, Melik Ahmet Sports Club was bought by Diyarbakır Municipality. [1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=72) The club's name was also changed to Diyarbakır Belediyespor. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=75) By 1990, red and white had gradually started causing an allergy. [1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=79) When the club's name was changed, its colors were changed too. They became green and white. [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=83) Three years later, in 1996, the club's colors were changed again. [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=87) Green and white was abandoned, it became yellow and red, man. [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=90) Melik Ahmet, a Turkish club by its name, sponsor, and philosophy, with Turanspor's colors, and gradually with its ideology and name, was turned into the organization's plaything. Some 16 years or so passed. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=102) It was 2013. The club's colors were once again changed. What did they do? [1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=106) They made them green and red. They said, "These are Diyarbakırspor's original colors, that's why they did it that way." Another year passed. [1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=112) In 2014, this time, the club's name was changed. It became Amedspor. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=116) What was Amed? What did it mean? There's no need to beat around the bush. [1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=119) It was the name the PKK wanted. It was the name the PKK wanted to give our city of Diyarbakır: Amed. Amed was the separatist organization's lie, which wanted to rewrite history as it saw fit. A perception operation. [2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=130) In 2014, when they changed the club's name to Amedspor, they also changed its colors. [2:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=135) They made them green, red and yellow. Yes, just like years ago Osman Hocalar told Hasan Cemal, green, red and yellow. [2:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=143) They made the colors of the flag of the Kurdistan they dream of Amedspor's colors. But fortunately, our football federation went to the trouble of doing something. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=150) That is, they intervened. They asked that it not be yellow. [2:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=153) White was used instead of yellow. For now, Amedspor's colors are green, red and white. [2:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=158) By request. Also, our esteemed government, this AKP government, made another contribution to this course of events. There was Diyarbakır Atatürk Stadium. [2:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=165) Yes, it was built in 1960. Before this Amedspor became Amedspor, it played all its matches at that stadium. [2:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=171) In 2016, they completely demolished it, erased it from history. [2:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=174) They built a new stadium in its place. They erased the name Atatürk. [2:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7F06HwKzk4xf/en/amedspor-history-origins-name-and-color-changes?t=177) They simply called it Diyarbakır Stadium.