FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - St Pauli vs Stoke City - Pre Season Friendly - Hamburg, Germany - August 1, 2017 Stoke's Ramadan Sobhi in action with St Pauli's Cenk Sahin REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen
(Reuters) - Turkish midfielder Cenk Sahin has been released by German team St Pauli following his Instagram post supporting his country's military incursion in northern Syria.
Turkey sent troops into Kurdish-held regions of Syria and Sahin's support for the operation caused uproar among some of second division club's supporters.
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