EMPIRE AND POWER IMAGINATION IN FOOTBALL: A REVIEW ON OSMANLISPOR’S TWITTER SHARES

Osmanlispor (Ottoman Football Club) based in Ankara and currently playing on the professional Turkish Super League, has earned a reputation thanks not only to the soccer it has performed but also to the ironic tweets shared by its Twitter account which have even been subjects of CAPs. This is due to the fact that its players are occasionally compared to the Ottoman soldiers and, matches, to battles, both of which are reminiscences of an emphasis on and yearning for the Ottoman Empire. Those Twitter shares can be regarded among projects which, with the growth and popularity of social networks based on the new media, aim to reach masses concurrently and swiftly. Thus in this study, which deals with social media, which is one of the current and effective channels in reaching the masses, the related shares were subjected to semiotic analysis. Hereby, how the empire and power imagination in the futbol was established and tried to be legitimated on Ottoman theme through social sharing platforms was discusse