The story of the Göztepe Legendary Bus, the symbol of championships and cups, is with you with the distinction of Göztepe TV.
Here is the curious story of the Göztepe Legendary Bus… July 15, 1997… When a serial killer named Andrew Cunanan killed the famous fashion designer Gianni Versace with two bullets in his head in Miami, USA, the whole world was in shock…
Televisions and radios were reporting the incident as the first news…
We were also driving north from London on the English Autobahn towards a bus depot in the Yorkshire region… Around 14:30 in the afternoon, we heard on the radio that Versace had been killed. It seemed like an ordinary event to us, but we would learn years later that it would help us remember this event and history… Because the reason we went to Yorkshire from the Yeni Asir London office that day was the double-decker English bus that Göztepe still uses today… Yes, the chairman of that time, Aydın Bilgin, wanted us to buy a bus to take the Göztepe footballers to the stadium… First, we looked in London and the surrounding area, but we could not find the desired bus… The garages in London said that there was a high demand for these buses, and especially antique enthusiasts bought these buses for various purposes and took them all over the world… “Where can we find them?” When we said that, they told us to look north… It would take us a day to go north and back, and the newspaper work in the office would be disrupted… We started looking for a bus by calling the ads… Its engine had to be good and it had to be in good condition to go on the road… It had to be able to go at least as far as Turkey… After a week of searching, we found the bus in a garage in Yorkshire where old municipal buses that had been taken out of service were collected. The fact that it was affordable, its engine was in good condition and it was still registered made our job easier… We would just go and take the bus for a spin and if we liked it, we would pay for it and ship it from the Southampton port… So we set off on that July 15th. After a 4-hour journey, our bus was waiting for us, washed and cleaned, from the garage… Its color was not red like the usual London buses, but dark green…
