Deportivo la coruna is a Spanish football club founded in 1906. In the 93-94 season, despite finishing the season with 56 points each, deportivo lost the championship to barcelona with averages, and in the 1999-2000 season they became la liga champions with 69 points.
Deportivo’s arch-rival celto vigo, who reached this championship with the roy makaay, victor sanchez, romero, flavio conceiçao squad, finished 7th in the same season.
These two teams are from two neighboring cities in the galicia region of spain. as a result of the rivalry between their fans, the celta vigoli nicknamed the deportivos “los turcos” as an “insult”. but this was not the case. the deportivos liked this nickname and adopted it officially. They created the slogan “strong like a Turk”.
Let’s go back centuries; it is the early 16th century. the Ottoman Empire is the most powerful state of the period and is in competition with the Portuguese in the seas. the Ottoman army under the command of Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha encounters the Portuguese in the Galicia region of Spain every time. However, the Portuguese taxed and raped the people of the Coruna region. Barbarossa Hayrettin Pasha, on the other hand, not only did not harm the people of the region, but also saved them from the Portuguese oppression. So much so that a castle was even allocated for Barbarossa Hayrettin Pasha and his navy so that they could stay when they arrived in this city.
On the other side, the inhabitants of the city of Vigo helped the Portuguese, but things did not go as they had hoped, and the Portuguese controlled this region for a long time, leaving King Charlemagne of Spain to deal with this problem.
This is how the friendship between the people of the region and the Turks began in the 16th century and continues to this day. Deportivo fans also call celta vigo fans “portuguese” in the sense that you are the real traitors.
Deportivo la coruna fans always unfurl the turkish flag on the pitch when they play football clubs from countries that sometimes have tensions with turkey, especially teams from greece. apart from that, there is always a turkish flag in the stands during league matches. Deportivo fans also share this image every november 10 in remembrance of veteran mustafa kemal ataturk.
