Amedspor and its football players have been facing several attacks since the club changed its name to incorporate Amed, the Kurdish name for the city of Diyarbakır, in 2014.

Since then, Amedspor fans and players have complained that they have been subject to racism by Turkish supporters and football association officials, who have banned supporters from attending several matches.

In August, the Turkish sports ministry prevented Amedspor from using a pitch for a planned ceremony to mark the start of the 2018-19 season. Previously, a Turkish court opened the prosecution on March 16 of the present and former presidents of football club Amedspor, based in the biggest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, on charges of making terrorist propaganda.

Amedspor's own twitter account also published a tweet showing Sakarya's supporters attacking the bench.