Deniz Naki

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Deniz Naki
Deniz Naki 2012.jpg
Deniz Naki (2012)
Personnel
birthday July 9, 1989
place of birth Düren ,  Germany
size 176 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1995-1996 FC Dueren 77
1996-2003 FC Dueren-Niederau
2003-2008 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2009 Bayer 04 Leverkusen II 36 0(7)
2009 →  Rot Weiss Ahlen  (loan) 11 0(4)
2009–2012 FC St. Pauli 71 (12)
2012-2013 SC Paderborn 07 23 0(2)
2013-2014 Gençlerbirliği Ankara 21 0(0)
2015-2018 Amed SK 58 (28)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006 Germany U-17 2 0(1)
2006-2007 Germany U-18 4 0(3)
2007-2008 Germany U-19 15 0(9)
2008-2009 Germany U-20 6 0(3)
2009 Germany U-21 2 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2017/18

Deniz Naki (born July 9, 1989 in Düren ) is a German - Turkish football player of Kurdish descent.

Career

Club career

After the son of Turkish-Kurdish parents started playing soccer at FC Düren 77, he received his soccer training as part of the DFB talent development program. Naki initially played for FC Düren-Niederau from 1996 to 2003 and was trained at the DFB base in Echtz from 2000 to 2003 . From 2003, the promotion took place in the performance center of Bayer 04 Leverkusen . With the Bayer youth team, he won the DFB Junior Club Cup in 2008 and scored once in the final. In 2008 he was promoted to the second team at Bayer 04, which played in the Regionalliga West , which was founded in the same year . For the second half of the 2008/09 season he was loaned to Rot Weiss Ahlen . He made his first professional appearance there on February 8, 2009 when he was substituted on for the game against FC Augsburg .

For the 2009/10 season, Naki moved to FC St. Pauli , where he received a contract until June 30, 2012. At the Hamburg club, he immediately established himself in the squad and scored on August 17, 2009 in the away game at Alemannia Aachen in his second league game his first league goal after he had previously scored in the first main round of the DFB Cup at FC 08 Villingen . At the side of Marius Ebbers , Rouwen Hennings , Charles Takyi and Matthias Lehmann , he was one of the club's most successful shooters with seven goals this season and thus contributed to the promotion to the Bundesliga . His actions in the course of the season were not without controversy: after provocative gestures towards fans of Hansa Rostock at the away game there in November 2009, who reportedly insulted the player in a racist manner, his club sentenced Naki the following day to a fine in favor of an aid organization Victim of violence. The DFB suspended him for three games. Two years earlier, another player had gone unpunished in a similar case.

Naki left FC St. Pauli at the end of the 2011/12 season and signed a two-year contract with SC Paderborn 07 during the 2012 summer break .

For the 2013/14 season he switched to the Turkish first division club Gençlerbirliği Ankara . In his first season, Naki came on 16 missions and fell short of expectations. After five missions in the 2014/15 season, Naki announced on his Facebook page on November 4, 2014 that his contract had been terminated at his request and that he would go back to Germany. Naki has not managed to establish himself as a regular at Ankara under five different head coaches. As a reason for terminating his contract, he cited what he said was a racist attack by strangers in Ankara. The press spokesman for Gençlerbirliği, Hakan Kaynak, condemned these attacks in a press release. In the same communication, however, it was also pointed out that Naki had asked for a contract termination for other reasons. Naki is said to have put forward his position within the team, his few games and his desire to return to Germany, but none of the attacks as reasons. Kaynak also pointed out in the press release that Naki had told different club employees about the attack on his person: Sometimes the attack was said to have occurred in the central Bahçelievler district in front of a café, and sometimes in front of the training grounds. Kaynak concluded his announcement by saying that regardless of the religious or cultural affiliation of the players, they always stand by them and do not want to embarrass them, but in the case of Naki there were clear contradictions in his statements.

In 2015 Naki moved to Amed SK in the third Turkish division. In the second round of the cup, he scored the 2-1 winner against Bursaspor . After the game, he spoke about the Turkish-Kurdish conflict and dedicated the victory to the victims. He was then suspended for twelve games for unsportsmanlike conduct.

The public prosecutor's office in Diyarbakır first accused Naki of propaganda for the PKK and opened a case against him, threatening him with up to five years in prison. At the start of the process on November 8, 2016, however, she applied for the proceedings to be discontinued. She relied on freedom of expression in her motion . The court closed the case. In addition to a representative from the German embassy in Ankara, the politician Jan van Aken had followed the proceedings. He assessed the court's decision that “international pressure worked”. In early April 2017, the same judge sentenced Naki to a suspended sentence of one year, six months, and 22 days after the prosecution appealed against the acquittal. He does not have to serve the sentence, provided he does not commit a criminal offense in the next five years.

On January 30, 2018, Naki was banned for life by the Disciplinary Council of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). The reason given by the TTF was “discrimination and ideological propaganda”. He also had to pay a fine of around € 58,000.

National team

Naki was used for several junior national teams of the DFB . In 2008 he took part in the U-19 European Championship in the Czech Republic with the German U19 national team. Mostly he played in midfield, including in the final, in which Naki replaced the suspended Savio Nsereko in the position of left midfielder. The game ended 3-1. From 2008 he was part of the German U-20 national team . In September 2009 Naki played two games for the U-21s , for which he scored a goal in his first game on September 4, 2009 after four minutes.

After Naki had not been nominated for the German national team for two years, he said in 2011 that he had spoken to Erdal Keser , the head scout of the Turkish Football Association , and then decided to play for the Turkish national team from now on .

Political stance

Deniz Naki supported the Kurds' right of self-determination in Turkey in public statements. He was attacked by Turkish nationalists on social networks in Germany and Turkey and was often referred to as a "Kurdish terrorist".

On March 19, 2018, Naki went on a hunger strike in front of the UN building in Geneva to protest against Turkey's military offensive against the Kurds in Syria .

On July 26, 2018, Naki published a letter in which he called on Mesut Özil to take action against racism in Turkey: “Please remember: those who will receive you with open arms on your next trip to Turkey will be exactly the same who attack me in a racist way ”. Özil had previously criticized the DFB for lack of support after racist hostility, among other things, had resigned from the German national team and at the same time had defended his photos with Erdogan as "non-political".

Attempt attempt in 2018

On the evening of January 7, 2018, Naki was driving his car on the A4 motorway . At around 11 p.m. near Düren a black station wagon approached him and drove back to his car in the left lane. Naki drove in the far right lane, he says. Suddenly he heard gunfire. Naki posted pictures showing bullet holes on a window and near a tire of his car. Naki told the world that the Turkish secret service MIT or someone who would not like his stance on the Kurds in Turkey was behind the attack. The responsible public prosecutor's office in Aachen started investigations into an attempted homicide .

Web links

Commons : Deniz Naki  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ^ Striker Deniz Naki leaves club in Turkey after alleged racist attack. In: The Guardian , November 5, 2014, accessed November 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Soccer player Naki leaves the Turkish first division club. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 6, 2014, accessed on November 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Title for Eternity", in DFB Aktuell No. 4 ( Memento from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 8.8 MB)
  4. ↑ Deniz Naki moves to the Millerntor
  5. ↑ a b Mike Glindmeier, Frieder Schilling: Freedom for Asamoah, punishment for Naki. In: Spiegel Online , November 5, 2009.
  6. ↑ St. Pauli officials angry about Naki's dropouts. In: Spiegel Online , November 3, 2009.
  7. ^ Steffen Lüdeke, Christian Görtzen: Naki blocked for three games after provocation. In: Die Welt , November 3, 2009.
  8. ^ Farewell to Naki
  9. ↑ Naki brings a lot of experience to Paderborn . SC Paderborn 07 website.Retrieved on August 31, 2012.
  10. ↑ SC Paderborn: Change from Deniz Naki to Gençlerbirliği perfect. In: liga-zwei.de, June 18, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  11. ↑ trtspor.com.tr: "İlhan Cavcav:" Batarız "" ( Memento from September 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ After a physical attack: Ex-U21 international Naki leaves Ankara. In: ran . November 4, 2014, accessed October 14, 2019 .
  13. ↑ amkspor.com: "G.Birliği'nden Deniz Naki açıklaması" (accessed on November 6, 2014)
  14. ↑ Peace roll call: Naki blocked for a long time. In: kicker , February 5, 2016.
  15. ↑ Maximilian Popp: In the penalty area. In: Der Spiegel , edition 45/2016, November 5, 2016.
  16. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/deniz-naki-115.html
  17. ↑ Turkey closes proceedings against German footballers. In: Die Zeit , November 8, 2016.
  18. ^ Because of terrorist propaganda: suspended sentence for footballer Naki | tagesschau.de. (no year). Retrieved April 6, 2017, from http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/naki-109.html .
  19. ↑ spiegel.de: Turkish Association bans Deniz Naki for life. In: Spiegel Online , January 30, 2018.
  20. ↑ sabah.com.tr: "Deniz Naki'nin tercihi Türkiye" (accessed on November 6, 2014)
  21. ↑ Thomas Dierenga: "GÜLE, GÜLE, Germany !." In: Bild , November 7, 2011, accessed November 6, 2014.
  22. ↑ "Denizli Naki'nin tercihi Türkiye" In: haber7.com , December 7, 2010, accessed on November 7, 2014 (Turkish).
  23. ↑ "Deniz Naki Türkiye'yi seçti" In: Milliyet , November 9, 2011, accessed on October 14, 2019 (Turkish).
  24. ↑ German-Turkish football professional shot at on the highway. In: The time . January 8, 2018, accessed January 8, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Hannes Heine: Deniz Naki shot at on the highway. In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 8, 2018, accessed January 8, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Ibrahim Naber: Soccer player on hunger strike - "Erdogan is a violator of international law". In: The world . Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Deniz Naki calls on Özil to fight against racism in Turkey. In: The world . July 26, 2018, accessed July 27, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Public prosecutor's office does not rule out politically motivated acts. In: Rheinische Post . Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  29. ^ Shots at a German-Turkish football professional. In: Handelsblatt . Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Naki, Deniz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren