Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Life often imitates art, and more prosaically in Turkey, football imitates the economy. That’s the ...

Attend a Besiktas match, or almost any other in Turkey, lap up the revelry and the anthems, and you might think football has survived ... turned protest into an art form. Using banners often ...

Several leading politicians in the country had previously called for the game in Paris to be canceled after Turkey ... Stade de France! “Football does not have to be a vector of military ...