Karıncaezmez Şevki

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Karıncaezmez Şevki
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Karıncaezmez Şevki ( 1919 in Istanbul - March 23, 2000 ibid) was a Turkish football fool and one of the symbolic figures of the Galatasaray fan base in Istanbul . Şevki sacrificed his profession, marriage and health to his association and was one of the most famous faces in Turkey from 1940 to 1970. His real name was Şevki Güney .

originality

Karıncaezmez Şevki only dressed in the club colors yellow and red and always had a flower on his lapel. Whenever he passed club colors, he paused for half an hour with his right arm held high in greeting. He often stood on the hood of his car, had a flag in his hand and caused traffic chaos. He received the nickname Karıncaezmez Şevki (“Şevki who does not harm a fly”, literally: “No ants squashed”) in 1950 from the then police chief of Istanbul and later Minister Orhan Eyüboğlu , because he never drove faster than 30 km / h. For years Karıncaezmez Şevki was honored as the most cultivated driver in Istanbul. In Galatasaray's fan circles , he is considered the legendary "amigo", a Turkish expression for whip in football, although he never actively put the crowd in the mood or steered it.

Life

Karıncaezmez Şevki had been married since around 1947 and had two children. For 15 years he worked as a bus driver for the city ​​transport company of Istanbul , until he was dismissed after many warnings because the flower on his lapel and the redesign of the driver's cab with flowers violated the service regulations. After his release in 1965, after 18 years of marriage, his wife Bedia also left him. She took her daughter Sıdıka and son Nuri with them. Karıncaezmez Şevki appeared in yellow and red for the divorce hearing. After this appearance, the judge awarded his wife the children.

Karıncaezmez Şevki bought a 1948 Opel, decorated it with the club's colors, plastered it inside with snippets of newspaper about the stars of Galatasaray and let it smell of perfume. From then on, Şevki worked as a dolmuş driver. He drove Galatasaray fans to home games for free. There were also attacks by opposing fans on his vehicle.

After his release and divorce, he suffered further hardship. As a rule, he watched his team's games breathlessly on the parapet with two flags in hand, often at the same height as the linesman. After a 3-2 defeat against Fenerbahçe, fans of his own team threw him over the stadium parapet as he was supposed to bring bad luck to the club. Şevki broke his right arm. He was also denied entry to the stadium that season. He watched the games in wind and weather from Beleştepe ("Free Hill") with his left arm raised for hours, as the right arm was now in plaster. After a few incidents, considerable complications of the fracture healing occurred due to the consumption of beer. The arm eventually had to be amputated.

Karıncaezmez Şevki has now withdrawn from the world for years. He lived with his sister Nuriye, had health problems and never left the house. In the following years there were various reports of Şevki's death. About 15 years later, on October 13, 1991, a report appeared in Nokta magazine that he was still alive. The club and the magazine now gave the impoverished Şevki material support and honored him. At a Nokta award ceremony , Şevki recited a self-composed and autobiographical poem in a fragile voice:

Çiçek sever / Esans sürer / Karıncaezmez / Gönül kırmaz / Acele iş sevmez / 30 km'den fazla gitmez / Galatasaray'dan dönmez / Yakasında çiçek görmezse yaşayamaz / Şoför Şevki Günmez
He loves flowers / He puts on perfume / He doesn't crush ants / He doesn't offend anyone / He doesn't like to rush / He doesn't go faster than 30 km / h / He never gives up on Galatasaray / If he doesn't see a flower on his lapel, he can't live / The driver Şevki Güney

Karıncaezmez Şevki died on March 23, 2000, the day on which his team won the quarter-final home game of the UEFA Cup against RCD Mallorca 2-1, an important victory on the way to the greatest success in the club's history, winning the UEFA Cup , scored.

Media reception

Karıncaezmez Şevki was the subject of numerous books throughout his life and thereafter. Newspaper articles, films and television broadcasts.

In 1965 a film called Çam Sakızı was shot about Şevki, in which he also starred. In the film Taçsız Kral , also from 1965, about the top scorer Metin Oktay by Atıf Yılmaz, Şevki plays himself. Contemporary newspapers reported extensively on his private life. The Milliyet reported specifically on October 31, 1965 about his divorce. It is thanks to an article in Nokta magazine on October 31, 1991 that Galatasaray Şevkis in particular was remembered. Shortly before his death, Şevki was featured in the Sabah newspaper . When he died, obituaries appeared in several newspapers. Eleven years after his death, the Posta wrote a detailed obituary and described him as the most cultivated "amigo" of all time.

There are portraits of Karıncaezmez Şevki in numerous books. Ümit Bayazoğlu describes it in a separate chapter in his Uzun, İnce Yolcular . Mümtaz Cankurtaran dedicates a section to him in his book Bir zamanlar İstanbul . Süleyman Tekil's book about the history of Galatasaray Galatasaray Tarihi, 1905-1985 portrays him as well as Cem Özmeral's book Dere Tepe İstanbul . Two encyclopedias about Istanbul, the İstanbul Ansiklopedisi from NTV-Verlag and the Dünden Bugüne İstanbul Ansiklopedisi from the Ministry of Culture and the History Foundation , deal with Şevki. Another portrait can be found in a separate chapter of Abuzer Aldoğan's book Geçmişten kalan İzler: Pertek'ten Başlayan Yol .

In 2011, the journalist Sunay Akın Şevki described in his program for the Türkmax broadcaster.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ümit Bayazoğlu: Uzun, İnce Yolcular. 42 portre. Istanbul 2014, p. 208
  2. ↑ Blog with facsimile of Milliyet of October 10, 1965 with a report on the divorce negotiations
  3. ↑ Türk Nostalji: Karıncaezmez ile Sülün Osman tiyatroya transfer oldu , September 29, 2012
  4. ↑ www.sinematurk.com
  5. ↑ Sabah, December 19, 1999
  6. ↑ Sabah, March 25, 2000
  7. ↑ Türkiye Gazetesi of March 25, 2000
  8. ↑ Hürriyet of March 24, 2000
  9. ↑ www.posta.com.tr

swell

  • Ümit Bayazoğlu: Uzun, İnce Yolcular . 42 portre. Istanbul 2014, p. 208 ff.
  • Süleyman Tekil: Galatasaray tarihi, 1905-1985 , Galatasaray Spor Kulübü, 1986, p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Karıncaezmez Şevki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Güney, Şevki (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer fan
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2000
Place of death Istanbul