A billboard, serving as a street sign, with a picture of Arsenal's soccer player Mesut Ozil in the German national team kit is replaced by a picture of him with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Sea town of Devrek in Zonguldak, Turkey July 24, 2018. DHA via REUTERS
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Authorities in the ancestral Turkish town of soccer star Mesut Ozil have erected a new street sign showing him posing with President Tayyip Erdogan after the player quit the German team, saying he faced "racism and disrespect" for his Turkish roots.
The sign marking "Mesut Ozil Avenue", named in honour of the player, replaces one picturing him wearing the international strip of Germany, the country of his birth.
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