Mehmet Aygun

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Mehmet Aygün (* approx. 1956 in Giresun , Turkey ) is a Turkish butcher living in Germany . According to his own statements, he was the first to sell İskender kebab in flatbread and is considered, along with others, to be the inventor of the doner kebab in flatbread .

Career

Mehmet Aygün grew up with five siblings in Giresun and began working in his father's shop there at an early age. The father died when Mehmet Aygün was a teenager.

At the age of 16, Aygün is said to have worked in the Kreuzberg city ​​snack bar on Kottbusser Damm (later Hasır ) that belonged to his family. According to this, he is said to have started selling the special kebab in March 1971 after being inspired to this innovation by the fast food that is already widespread in Germany . Previously, as in Turkey, kebab was usually only served on a plate with rice and salad and traditionally without sauces.

According to other sources, Aygün only moved to an uncle in Berlin in 1974, at the age of 18, to work in his restaurant, which he used to finance language courses and his studies at a university of applied sciences.

In 1978 Aygün opened the first Hasır restaurant; In 2008 he operated eight branches in Berlin, which are recommended in travel guides as "snack bars". Attempts to establish the “German style” kebab (in fact, this is marketed as a German specialty in China) with similar success in Turkey have long failed.

In Turkey, Mehmet Aygün started operating several smaller hotels in the Şişli district of Istanbul in the 1990s, before opening an all-inclusive theme hotel on the Turkish Riviera in 2003 . Mehmet Aygün was twice president of the Türkiyemspor Berlin football club (1991/1996).

In January 2009 it was claimed in some media that Aygün had died, but it was a mistake.

Others

Different media name Kadir Nurman as the inventor of the doner kebab. Since 1972 he has been selling kebab meat with onions and salad in bread in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History ( Memento from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Hasir restaurant
  2. ↑ Crisis on the spit - There is a lull in the kebab shops , South German on September 6, 2006
  3. ↑ Döner kebab inventor dies , nachrichten.ch on January 23, 2009
  4. ↑ a b Hannes Bertschi, Marcus Reckewitz : From Absinth to Zabaione , Berlin 2002, 116–119
  5. ↑ a b Wieprecht, Skuppin: Berlin popular errors. Ein Lexikon , Berlin 2005, p. 61
  6. ↑ Interview with the Turkish daily Vatan , translated by Tourexpi July 29, 2008
  7. ^ Franz-Michael Rohm: six pm Berlin .: The best tips for going out between 6pm and 9pm ; 2002, p. 13
  8. ↑ Felix Ullmann: A clever Chinese is marketing the kebab as a German specialty . Der Tagesspiegel, February 7, 2000, online
  9. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/biz/article1035192/37_Jahre_am_Stueck_geoeffnet.html
  10. ↑ Eva Dorothée Schmid: "Really only with onions and salad" . Frankfurter Rundschau, September 20, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Aygun, Mehmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish restaurateur in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH around 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Giresun , Turkey