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The team that Alpha mou is describing, is PAOK.
PAOK’s colors are black and white and was first established in the Pera area of Istanbul, with the name “Hermes†in 1875.
Then, in 1923, after Asia minor Catastrophe, the Greeks of Istanbul renamed their club Peraclub in line with the new constitution adopted by Kemal Ataturk. Later, after the immigration, the refugees who settled in Thessaloniki (Selanik), in 1926, established PAOK which translated means the Panthessalonikian Athletic Club of Constantinople. They say that the colors were: “mourning black to symbolize the tragic history of the Greeks in Turkey and white, the color of optimism, a window onto the future, symbolizing their struggle for tomorrow and the victories they intended to win.â€
AlphaF is right. The fans of the other Greek teams, call us Turks. (I say “us†cause PAOK is my favorite team  )
However, like Sui said, there is AEK (Athletic Union of Constantinople), another Greek team, also established by refugees from Istanbul. I don’t know much about their history and never cared to learn actually.  But I know that their colors are yellow and black and the rest of us call them hanumia, meaning “women of a harem†in Greek.
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