37 ,n r U!i.rJ Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales, 2010 (26) 1 pp. 37-55 Migrant Publies: Mass Media and Stranger-Relationality in Urban Space Kira KOSNICK* INTRODUCTION On the evening of June 26 tb , 2007, the city of Berlin was in the grips of serious football fever. Scores of young men and, to a lesser extent, women had taken to the streets after the final whistle of a cup final to celebrate their winning team. The German Football Association Cup final game is traditionally played out in Berlin. On the Kurfürstendamm, the centre high street of what was formerly West Beflin, horn- honking car corsos with passengers waving flags were applauded by the crowd, many of them clad in the red and black colours of the new cup final champions, 1. Fe Nürnberg. These scenes of triumphant celebration were mirrored in the district of Kreuzberg, horne to one of the largest populations of Turkish nationals outside of Turkey. What was different was the colour of the flags and shirts - yellow and blue, not red and black. In Kreuzberg, scores of young people with mi grant backgrounds from Turkey were celebrating not the new German cup final champions but rather club Fenerbahf,'e's decisive win of the Turkish Süper that very same night in IstanbuL Late into the night, they chanted slogans and cheered each other on as they drove or walked up and down the main streets of the district most closely associated with Turkish life in the city. What transpired that night in different parts of Berlin provides a good indication for what is at stake when thinking about the contemporary relationship between media, ethnic minorities and the public sphere. The simultaneity of public celebrations in the city, occasioned by two football matches and national title decisions in two different nution-states, teIls us something about both the existence of trans- nationally ma,"-medlated public spheres and the ways in which ethnic minorities and ..