In order to know more about the football supporters’ significance in the Turkish demonstrations, Andreas Selliaas has interviewed Tolga Senel, Turkish expert on football and sports politics.

At the sports minister conference, MINEPS V, in Berlin yesterday, Sport Integrity Director Chris Eaton presented his views on what the global society must do in order to preserve the integrity of sport.

Unedited version of the speech by Chris Eaton, director for sport integrity at the International Center for Sports Security, delivered at the MINEPS V Conference in Berlin, Germany, on 30 May 2013.

After many years in the shadow of taboos, sports corruption is now debated freely and at the highest level of sports policy making. All the right words are in place at three huge global meetings this week, but convincing action is still far away.

The country that will host two of the world’s largest sports events has no long term strategy for sport.

There are so massive national interests at stake when Brazil hosts the World Cup and the Olympic Games that the government has to play an active role against the corruption that follows. But consideration of the sports movement and the autonomy of the Brazilian states set certain limitations.

Analysis: Several scandals centring around Brazil’s Olympic president and Rio 2016 chairman, Carlos Nuzman, is creating unrest regarding Brazil’s image and internal dispute between the government and the Brazilian Olympic Committee

The turmoil surrounding Brazil's former national stadium reflects the conflicts that characterise the country in the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics.