Because in 2010 a Kurdish person threw shoes at him in Sevilla, yelling 'long live kurdistan', but he missed.
quite sure his sheep thought his aura of awesomeness deflected the shoes, I have seen plenty of Orbanist idiots of the same caliber
When he returned home he was greeted as a brave hero, and I also remember some anti-israeli sentiment of his going on for which he was praised among his followers.
(ofc it has to be more than that, but I remember this whole 'he is so brave omg lul' bullshit because of that incident)