Suleyman Taşköprü

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Monument to Süleyman Taşköprü

Süleyman Taşköprü (born March 20, 1970 in Afyonkarahisar ; died June 27, 2001 in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld ) was one of the victims of the series of murders by the terrorist organization “ National Socialist Underground ” (NSU). The greengrocer was killed in his father's shop with three shots from two different weapons.

Taşköprü came to Germany with his family at the age of 11. He had a three year old daughter.

On June 27, 2001 at around 11 a.m. Taşköprü was killed by headshots from a Ceska pistol and a Bruni pistol. Before the perpetrators fled, they photographed their victim. The picture appears in the NSU's confessional video. Taşköprü's father discovered his seriously wounded son immediately after the crime, before he died. Immediately afterwards, he told the police that the attackers were Germans who were around 25 to 30 years old.

However, the murder commissions did not suspect a group of perpetrators in the area of ​​right-wing extremism, but investigated in the milieu of organized crime . The officials suspected that Taşköprü had friends in the “Hamburg red light district”.

In 2013, a street parallel to the street where Taşköprü was killed was renamed Taşköprü Street. Hamburg is the first city to rename a street after a victim of the NSU. In 2018 the Hamburg citizenship asked the Taşköprü family to apologize for the investigations, which were carried out under false suspicions. However, Hamburg is also the only federal state that has not set up a parliamentary committee of inquiry into NSU murders.

Web links

Commons : Monument to Süleyman Taşköprü  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who was the NSU victim Süleyman Taşköprü? In: NDR. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ "He wanted to tell me something, but he couldn't". Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ "You tore off my heart". In: The time. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  4. ^ WORLD: Citizenship apologizes to the family of alleged NSU victim . In: THE WORLD . June 27, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed June 13, 2020]).
  5. ^ Initiative calls for NSU committee of inquiry. In: The world. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ "Not once determined to the right". Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Taşköprü, Süleyman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish victim of the series of murders of the terrorist organization "National Socialist Underground" (NSU)
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Afyonkarahisar
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2001
Place of death Hamburg-Bahrenfeld