Reaction to the armed attack on municipal staff in Torbalı
Torbalı Mayor Övünç Demir and hundreds of employees marched to the cafe to support their friends who were attacked.
Quick Look
- An armed attack was carried out on Furkan İçel, who works at the Barış Cafe in İzmir's Torbalı district.
- The young employee was injured with 4 bullets and was taken to the hospital.
- Torbalı Mayor Övünç Demir and hundreds of municipal employees marched to the cafe to protest the attack, and all municipal cafes in the district were closed for one day.
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Why It Matters
An armed attack was carried out on Furkan İçel, who works at Barış Cafe, which is owned by Torbalı Municipality. When the attackers entered the cafe, they destroyed the counter and fired six shots at İçel. The young employee, who was injured by 4 bullets hitting his leg, was taken to the hospital.
The armed attack on Furkan İçel, who worked at the municipally owned Barış Cafe in İzmir's Torbalı district, caused a wide-scale reaction in the district. Condemning the attack, Torbalı Mayor Övünç Demir and hundreds of municipal employees walked to the cafe where the incident took place and supported their colleagues.
The incident took place yesterday at Barış Cafe in Cumhuriyet District. Allegedly, a person who had an argument with cafe employee Furkan İçel returned to the venue with his son about 3 hours later. While the attackers entered the cafe with knives and guns and destroyed the counter, six shots were fired at İçel. The young employee, who was injured by 4 bullets hitting his leg, was taken to the hospital.
MUNICIPALITY CAFES WERE CLOSED FOR PROTEST
After the violent incident, Torbalı Municipality stood together. Mayor Övünç Demir, council members, deputy mayors and many municipal employees gathered in front of the municipality building during the lunch break today and walked shoulder to shoulder to the cafe where the attack took place. In order to raise awareness and protest the attack, all municipal cafes in the district were closed for a day. In the announcement he hung on the facilities with his own hands, Mayor Demir included the expressions "Furkan is not alone! We are a big family."
"THAT BULLET WAS FIRED AT ALL OF US"
Mayor Demir, who was with İçel and his family in the hospital from the first moment of the incident, reacted harshly to the attackers in the press statement he made after the march. Emphasizing that violence against personnel can never be accepted, Demir said, "Torbalı Municipality is a family and even the smallest member of this family means 'We', 'All of us'. Yesterday's bullet was fired not only at Furkan but at all of us. I want to say this from here; no one can harm a hair of our hardworking friends."
Stating that the incident was meticulously investigated by the judicial authorities and thanking the members of the police and the judiciary, Demir said, "Behind our friend Furkan, there is the Torbalı Municipality, his fellow workers, there is the Torbalı Municipality administration, but beyond that, there are the people of Torbalı like a mountain in Kosovo. We hope that such incidents will end in our district."
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Catching the attackers and initiating judicial processes
Likely · Within days
Open Questions
- What are the identities and motives of the attackers?
- How is Furkan İçel's health?
- Were the attackers caught?
