A father of two has suffered life-changing injuries after he was attacked in broad daylight in North London. Tarkan Mustafa, 33, lost the sight in one eye and will need major surgery to rebuild his cheekbone and eye socket after an unprovoked attack outside a chip shop on Stoke Newington High Street. The incident took place […]
A man who shot dead a woman working at the Izmir office of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has been arrested by police. Deniz Poyraz was killed when the suspect, Onur Gencer, entered the building and opened fire just after 11am on Thursday, 17 June. The 38-year-old woman was filling in for her mum […]
Pc Deniz Jaffer, 47, and his colleague Pc Jamie Lewis, 32, are set to appear at the Old Bailey later this month over allegations that they shared pictures of a double murder scene on WhatsApp. The two Metropolitan Police officers appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 27 May having each been charged with a single […]
A woman who was arrested on Friday after Turgay Özcan was found with fatal stab injuries at a property in Stamford Hill, North London, has been charged with his murder. Katarzyna Poniatowska, 31, was remanded to appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court on Monday 7 June. Police were called to 72 Stamford Hill at 10.52am on […]
The home of the head of the Switzerland Turkish Society has been vandalised by supporters of the PKK terror group. It is the fifth time in two years that Şeref Yıldız’s property in Basel has been targeted. The latest attack took place in the early hours of Wednesday morning, 17 March, by three assailants who […]
On 21 September 2017, Halla Barakat, a 23-year-old American journalist, and her 62-year-old mother Orouba Barakat, a Syrian national, were murdered in their own home in Istanbul. Their throats had been cut and their bodies covered with blankets. Nine days later, Turkish police arrested a suspect – Ahmed Barakat – in Bursa and he was […]
A man has been charged with a string of offences after a spate of graffiti attacks against Turkish barber shops in Sunderland, northeast England. Following a swift investigation by officers Sarbaz Rasul Khzri, 22, was arrested and charged with criminal damage and possessing an offensive weapon. He is due to appear in court in March. […]
Four men and one woman accused of abducting and killing Nigerian university student Kennedy Taomwabwa Dede in 2018 have been found guilty at Gazimağusa (Famagusta) Criminal Court. They were each sentenced to between 9 and 27 years in jail. Nidai Şanlı, who had gone on the run after the attack, was found guilty of murder, […]
On Friday, the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) woke to the grim news that a mother and father, and their teenage son had been shot dead in their home in Geçitkale, near Famagusta. Bengü Çobanoğlu, 48, and her husband İbrahim Çobanoğlu, 52, had been killed in their bedroom. Their 14-year-old son Çınar Çobanoğlu was […]
A dispute over control of a luxury hotel in Girne, in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC), broke into open hostilities with police forced to intervene after reports of armed men ‘storming the hotel’. The incident took place on Thursday, 10 December, with shareholder Kemal Bozoğlu allegedly arriving at Cratos Premium Hotel with 70 […]
