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Official flag
Official flag of Galatasaray SK, horizontal and vertical versions - Images by António Martins, 4 July 2004, and Ivan Sache, 29 July 2019, respectively
The club's (all branches) official flag is horizontally divided red-yellow with the club's emblem in the center. It is used:
- during the presentation of new players (photo,
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- on and inside the club's premises (photo,
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- by athletes during competitions and medal ceremonies (photo,
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photo).
The flag is also hoisted vertically at the entrance of the club's social seat (photo).
The club's emblem, indeed the Galatasaray High School emblem, was designed in 1923 by student Ayetullah Emin, who used a complicated mathematical formula to draw the emblem. The Ottoman letters gayn - qin were changed to the Latin letters "G" - "S" in 1926. The Galatasaray Sports Club, founded in 1905 within the High School, adopted Emin's emblem, charged with the foundation year of the club.
[Galatasaray High School website]
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2019
Unofficial flags
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Unofficial flag of Galatasaray - Image by Onur Özgün, 27 June 2003
A similar flag (photo) with four horizontal, red-yellow-red-yellow stripes appears to be of more limited, unofficial use.
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2019
Today, while I was sitting on the sidewalk across the street from my
building, a man pedaled by on a special bicycle designed for disabled
people. His vehicle was flying a variant of the Galatasaray flag. The differences with the official flag are:
- There were eight red and yellow horizontal stripes instead of two;
- The object in the center was a white circle instead of a white ellipse;
- The insignia on the circle was the third of the four variants shown on
the Galatasaray High School website:
- The "1905" was at the bottom of the circle.
Lewis Nowitz, 24 April 2004
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Graeme Souness' flag - Image by Ivan Sache, 4 June 2017
The Intercontinental Derby that opposes Galatasaray (Europe) to
Fenerbahçe (Asia) is considered as among the hottest derbies in the world.
In 1966, the final of the Turkish Cup opposed the two rival clubs,
Galatasaray won the first leg at home (1-0) and eventually won the cup
on 24 April 1996 in their rival's stadium (1-1 after extra time).
To celebrate the victory, Galatasaray's hot-headed Scottish coach,
Graeme Souness (b. 1953) ran to the central circle of the field and
planted there a giant red and yellow-striped flag (video). This is considered
as one of the most emblematic events in the Intercontinental Derby,
and, generally, in Turkish football.
Souness' act of bravado nearly sparkled a riot in the stadium; how he
managed to safely leave the stadium is still a part of the legend.
Souness was soon nicknamed "Ulubatlı Souness", for the Turkish hero
Ulubatlı Hasan (1428-1453) who planted the Ottoman flag on the walls
of Constantinople and defended it until death.
The giant flag is horizontally divided into ten stripes, in turn red
and yellow.
Ivan Sache, 4 June 2017
Galatasaray Sailing Team
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Flag and burgee of Galatasaray Sailing Team - Images by Ivan Sache, 29 July 2019
The flag of Galatasaray Sailing Team (photo,
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photo) is
white with the team's emblem, made of the "GS" monogram
crossed by a blue seabird. The team's burgee (photo,
photo,
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photo) is the matching triangular flag.
On both the flag and burgee, the emblem is slightly different from the
official, stand-alone version: the bird's wings are displayed
horizontally instead of slanted.
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2019
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Flag of Galatasaray High School - Image by Ivan Sache, 29 July 2019
Galatasaray High School (Galatasaray Lisesi - Lycée de Galatasaray; website) is the mother of Galatasaray Sport Club, and, most recently, of Galatasaray University.
The institution known as Galata Sarayı Humayun Mektebi (Galata Palace
Royal School) brought up highly educated superior officials to the
Palace. The Palace was then a complex establishment set up in a large
garden where the educational units, the library and the treasury were
founded.
There, persons knowledgeable in different areas were in service from
whom the palace officers and the Sultan himself before anyone could seek
advice. The education of those personalities were provided in the
Foundation of Galata Serail that continued its function from the end of
the 15th century (1481) to the beginning of the 18th century (1715).
As reported by Evliya Çelebi, Sultan Bayazid II (1481-1512) saw a small,
shabby hut in a very large and well maintained garden. Meeting the hut’s
owner Gul Baba, the Sultan wanted to reward him of the care he gives to
the garden and has a school and a hospice built in it.
While the story explains us that the school was founded upon a wish, we
know that Mehmet II, the Conqueror of Istanbul researched the older
cultures and read classics translated after his instructions in order
that the state he would have found in the city carrying the traces of
antique culture could be permanent, and that it live a thousand years as
Byzantine Empire. One of those classics, Plato's “Republic” emphasizes
that the state could only be run by philosophers. Then how, in the era
when the Ottoman Empire started to rise up, could the philosophers to
run this state be raised? There was a Palace school, but where would the
primary and middle school education of those students be realized? As a
result of these remarks, creating the ideal school of his father Mehmet
II under the name of "Galata Serail Foundation", Bayazid II. has brought
together an important part of the Ottoman palace education.
One of the most important institution of the Ottoman Empire, The Galata
Serail Madrasa was used as medicine school and a military base.
The school became a symbol of the westernization era and the practices
in Tanzimat. There is, in fact, the need to intellectual officers who
will put into practice the reforms realized in judicial, political and
social spheres and to raise them, an educational institution that will
comprehend western programs alongside with the traditional ones. The
institution was reformed on 1 October 1868 with the name Mekteb-I
Sultani (Royal School) with an inauguration ceremony attended by Sultan
Abdulaziz. Thanks to the efforts of the Paris ambassador Cemil Pasha and External Affairs Minister Fuad Pasha, the school instructed students in
par with French high school education. Among those students were also
those of Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish faiths.
The school took the name of Galatasaray Lisesi (Galatasaray High School)
in 1924 and started to provide education in line with the Republican
revolutions. The humanities starts to be taught in Turkish. In 1965 girl
students are accepted to the school. In 1968 French President Charles De Gaulle visited the school for its 100th anniversary of the school. In 1975 the school was named as an Anatolian High School. Finally,
Galatasaray Instruction and Education (Galatasaray Eğitim ve Öğretim
Kurumu - GEÖK) that also comprises elementary and university education
got enacted with the protocol signed by Presidents François Mitterrand and Turgut Özal.
The flag of Galatasaray High School (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) is diagonally divided yellow-red with the school's emblem in the center, which was designed in 1923 by student Ayetullah Emin, who used a complicated mathematical formula to draw the emblem. The Ottoman letters gayn - qin were changed to the Latin letters "G" - "S" in 1926
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2019
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Flag of Galatasaray University - Image by Randy Young, 29 July 2019
The Galatasaray Instruction and Education Institution became the Galatasaray University by Law No. 3,993 (text) published on 6 June 1994 in the Turkish official gazette, No. 21,952. Although the institution took the status of University, it kept its peculiarity of being an integrated instruction and education and the Galatasaray high school and the elementary school in conjunction with it remained educational units attached to the rectorate.
The flag of Galatasaray University (photo, photo, photo) is white with the university's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2019
