Posted on 05/26/2008 6:10:13 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Furniture, windows smashed, three hospitalized in bloody attack blamed on ethnic hatred
A mob rampaged through a west-end cafe in a bloody attack yesterday that sent three men to hospital.
After the bloodshed, angry Kurds pointed the finger at their Turkish neighbours.
"This attack is a well-organized hate crime against Kurds by racist people," said Metin Yesilcimer, who rushed to the scene as soon as he heard about the violence.
Two men in their 40s and one in his 50s were taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after a group of 20 to 25 armed men stoned Ankara Cafe at 15960 109 Ave., and assaulted eight people with metal batons, knives and stones, said eyewitnesses.
"They are like Nazis. They are Turkish Nazis," said Yesilcimer, who said he was speaking on behalf of the victims.
STORMED THE CAFE
Just before 4 p.m., about eight construction workers were playing cards, drinking coffee and watching television when the attackers suddenly stormed the cafe.
"Somebody could have been killed here today," Yesilcimer said.
Cuma Yuksel, 40, sustained a bloody cut above his left eye, Halil Ekinci, 50, had a swollen arm, and Riza Med, 42, had a bruised nose after they were beaten with wood and metal sticks.
The attackers fled before cops got to the scene.
The owners were left to clean up smashed glass, droplets of blood and broken chairs and tables.
Thirty minutes earlier, an unknown man surveyed the cafe, said Yesilcimer.
"He came, looked around and I was kinda feeling something bad was going to happen."
He left the cafe and 30 minutes later, he got a call about the vicious assault.
Jalal Mardin, 31, said he was not surprised by the violence because of the history between Turks and Kurds. That's why he left Turkey six years ago and came to Canada as a refugee.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has fought for self-rule in Turkey's southeast since 1984.
The fighting has killed tens of thousands of people since then.
About 30 outraged Kurdish men met at the cafe last night to discuss their next move.
NO RETALIATION
Yesilcimer said they are not planning to retaliate.
"Nobody can guarantee that, but some individuals would be too angry they might retaliate.
"We want to be as peaceful as possible."
Mardin said most of the men at last night's meeting were refugees who wanted a new life in Canada.
"Most of these people have lost their relatives back home. They know what war is. They suffered from our country and they don't want to see this kind of conflict again in Canada."
Damarys Chavez, the 31-year-old wife of the cafe owner, said she now fears for the safety of her 2 1/2-year-old daughter who sometimes stays at the restaurant.
Police were investigating, but no arrests had been reported by the time of publication.
Remember Armenia........
We really need to throw them all out.
We had the Monroe doctrine.
Where is the leader who will establish a doctrine barring muslims from the western hemisphere?
that was tried by the knights templar, but in the middle east
We need to throw them all out and we never will. We and our children will watch the Western civilization drown in Middle Eastern barbarity, until and if another man with a mustache shows up somewhere - my bet would be on Russia this time.
I still say we should have split up Iraq on ethnic lines, set them at each other’s throats and walked away.
A free Kudistan on the border would have been a suitable reward to Turkey for its [lack of] coöperation at the start of the war, and a rallying point for Iranian Kurds...
Insane murder cult.
This happened in Canada? If so, I’d say failure to assimilate was a contributing cause...
What does a Marxist revolutionary groups have to do with this? Our own Department of State and the governments of Europe have long named the PKK as a terrorist group. Why mention this group. I wonder.
One armed citizen would have solved this problem.
b/4 any yob jumps on, that is one armed( with a gun ) citizen.
Not looking to be butt of jokes here
Ping.
Just Muslims being Muslim. It’s how they are.
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