UPDATE: The Irish citizen involved in Turkish brawl has been named.
According to a report by Turkish news outlet NTV, the Irish citizen involved in the mass brawl in Turkey has been named as Mohammed Fadel Dobbous, who they identify as an Irish citizen.
The incident occurred on 1 of August in the Kepez District of Fatih Molla Gurani Street.
The report continues, Irish citizen Mohammed Fadel Dobbous and his tourist friends were supposedly drunk and entered the shop on the street to buy alcohol, but the shopkeeper told them that he was not selling alcohol and they started to argue.
The shopkeeper asked him to leave his shop, but Mohammed Fadel Dobbous got angry and called two of his friend from the hotel. The man in question then opened the fridge, dropped all the bottles to the ground and the fight began.
Thanks to JOE reader Ozgun Ozdemir for the update and translation.
ORIGINAL REPORT:
This is insane.
Footage of a man reported to be from Ireland at the centre of a massive street brawl while on holiday in Turkey is attracting a lot of attention in the country at the moment.
The footage in the video below appears to have been recorded in Aksaray, a neighbourhood in Istanbul, earlier this month and was tweeted by Haberturk TV earlier this evening who have identified him as Irish.
İrlandalı boksör turist Aksaray esnafını böyle dövdü!https://t.co/cW0ZFEf0LM
— Habertürk TV (@HaberturkTV) August 25, 2015
The fight appeared to start after the man, who has been identified as an Irish tourist by a number of Turkish news outlets, spilled a number of water bottles from a fridge and it quickly spiralled out of control, as he felled a man with a punch before being struck with chairs and a baseball bat.
via gazetetavan.com
Yer: Aksaray!
İrlandalı boksör sosyal medyayı böyle salladı!
▶http://t.co/VkLveCb5qm pic.twitter.com/a44dXAF7hj— Habertürk TV (@HaberturkTV) August 25, 2015
The account that tweeted the video, Haberturk TV, has just under 500,000 followers and a search of the word ‘Asksaray’ on Twitter illustrates just how much attention it is receiving at the moment.
If anyone has any information on the incident in question, please contact us at editorial@joe.ie.
Hat-tip to Özgün Özdemir for the heads up on this one
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