Turkish Foreign Ministry extended a statement on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the arson of the House of the Family of Ethnic Turks in Germany, whose victims were 5 people.
On May 29, 1993, a group of extremists set fire to the Hench family in the city of Zolingen in the federal land North Rhine-Westphalia. As a result, five family members were killed: Gyursun Indgea (28), Hatige Gench (19), Gulistan Oztyurk (12), Khulia (9) and Salim Gench (5).
The department also honored the memory of the Gench Mevlyuda surviving during the attack, which “taught the world a lesson with its calls for restraint, despite the loss of loved ones.” Mevlyuda died in October 2022.
The department emphasized that Türkiye will continue the decisive struggle with racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia