Two Amedspor shirts changed hands at a private dinner in London on 13 September 2026. They went to two figures in British politics: the Tottenham MP David Lammy and the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner.
Who handed over the shirts
Lammy received his shirt from İbrahim Doğuş, a councillor in the Borough of Lambeth. Rayner received hers from Feryal Clark, an MP of Kurdish origin. Both were present at the dinner.
The sources do not say who organised the dinner or who else was invited. Nor do they record which season the shirts were from, or whether either carried a name or a number. This report does not fill those gaps.
Not the first shirts in London
An Amedspor shirt has appeared around British politics before. One went to Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons. Lord Maurice Glasman, a member of the House of Lords, has worn one in public.
What the four names have in common is the shirt; where they differ is how it reached them. The sources do not describe this as a planned sequence, and it is not presented as one here.
Shirts on the record
The names involved
David Lammy: MP for Tottenham.
Angela Rayner: Deputy Prime Minister.
İbrahim Doğuş: councillor in Lambeth; handed the shirt to Lammy.
Feryal Clark: MP of Kurdish origin; handed the shirt to Rayner.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle: Speaker of the House of Commons; given a shirt earlier.
Lord Maurice Glasman: member of the House of Lords; wore the shirt in public.
The name on the shirt
What was handed over is a football shirt. The name across it has been the same since 2014, the year the club became Amed Sportif Faaliyetler. The Kurdish name of the city sits on the chest of the shirt, and it travels wherever the shirt does.
The evening in London became one recorded instance of that name reaching politicians of another country, in a capital outside Turkey. That much is on the record; beyond it the sources say nothing.
The same day on the pitch
On the day the shirts were handed over, the club was playing in Amed (Diyarbakır): Amedspor beat Başakşehir 5-0 in week five of the Süper Lig and are third on 10 points after five rounds. The weekly table is on the Süper Lig page, the squad and fixtures on the club page.
What the sources do not say
None of the recipients is recorded as having said anything about the gift. The purpose of the dinner is not stated either. The politicians' views, the political weight of the gesture — none of that is verified, so none of it appears here.
The club's trace outside Amed is kept separately on this site, in From Amed to the diaspora and the Kurdish football section.