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Mesut Özil (German pronunciation: [ˈmeːzut ˈøːzil], Turkish: [meˈsut œˈzil]; born 15 October 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Amine Gülşe was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden.Her mother is from İzmir, Turkey, and her father is an Iraqi Turkmen from Kirkuk, Iraq and she has a brother named Şahan Gülşe.
Ozil de Cadartz, French troubadour; Mesut Özil (born 1988), German footballer; See also. Ozili or Ojili, a Mandal in Nellore district in the state of Andhra Pradesh ...
The growing number of Muslim players has been fueled by the internationalization of football. [30] That has also led to greater understanding and willingness on the part of Premier League clubs and fans to accommodate players' religious needs. [30] The league now employs a Muslim chaplain and some clubs have dedicated prayer rooms. [31]
Gündoğan is a Muslim. [90] [91] In May 2018, he met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in London, along with Mesut Özil and Cenk Tosun, two other England-based, German-born players of Turkish descent. Gündoğan was criticised for referring to Erdoğan as "my president", despite not being a citizen of Turkey.
He was also a keen proponent of the country's rapprochement with the Middle East and the Muslim countries. Ozal was very supportive of the Gulf War, urging President George H. W. Bush to go to war with Iraq, with which Turkey shared a border. He said that Saddam Hussein "must go" and called him "more dangerous than Gaddafi." [17]
In 2010, 74.1% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the majority, while 25.9% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the minority. [114] A Pew Center study in 2010 found that 3% of the world's Muslims population live in non-Muslim-majority developed countries. [114]
The following is a list of athletes with dual nationality.It includes both players who can trace their origins to a foreign country and those who have attained foreign nationality during their career, as well as players who hail from semi-autonomous regions within countries.