Mehmet Turgut

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Mehmet Turgut (born May 2, 1977 in Kayalık ; died February 25, 2004 in Rostock ) was one of the victims of the series of murders by the terrorist group “ National Socialist Underground ” (NSU). He was shot while working in a kebab shop in Rostock- Toitenwinkel .

Turgut was a Kurd and had applied for asylum in Germany three times without success since 1994. He lived in Hamburg and moved to Rostock a few weeks before his death. Turgut had four siblings.

On February 15, 2006, according to the indictment in the NSU trial, between 10:10 am and 10:20 am, the assassin came to Mr. Kebab's snack bar and killed Turgut with three shots.

The commission, which investigated the murder in the following months, announced in a press release a week after the murder: "A xenophobic background can currently be excluded." The operator of the diner where Turgut worked as a temporary worker reported that he was from treated like a suspect. Only after the NSU had exposed itself did the authorities have to admit the racist motive for the murder.

In the files of the federal prosecutor's office on the murder case, Turgut is listed under the first name of his brother Yunus because their passports were mixed up.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Funeral service for Mehmet Turgut: Warning of right-wing violence. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ They just wanted to kill. In: The time. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  3. ^ NSU trial: courtroom protocol. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ You are not forgotten. In: The time. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Yunus Turgut - the swapped NSU victim. In: t-online. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Turgut, Mehmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish-Turkish victim of the NSU
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kayalık
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2004
Place of death Rostock