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| The Grand Turk |
| I don’t want to sell entertainment at site of massacre, Reina co-owner says |
| 2017-01-28 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] The co-owner of the Reina nightclub, which was attacked by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) on Jan. 1, has said he no longer wishes to provide entertainment in a place in which a total of 39 people died and 65 people were maimed. "Because of the villains, we sent bodies all over the world. I don’t want to sell entertainment in a place in which many people died. There are also many maimed people," Ali Ünal told daily Haberturk, noting that he could not host people and play music at the location again. Dubbing Reina one of the biggest brands in the world, Ünal said the brand needed to live on. "Yes, this brand needs to live, but no one told us to make it live," he said, criticizing authorities for not calling him. "I don’t know if anyone called [the other co-owner] Mehmet Kocarslan, but no one called me. No one even called me from the Tourism Ministry," he said. Ünal said he was at the door of the nightclub when the attack began. "When I fell to the ground, [confessed attacker Abdulkadir Masharipov] thought I was dead. I lost my friends and customers there. I can’t do business [there]. I don’t know if Kocarslan can or can’t," he said. During the interview, Ünal said he would not quit the entertainment business, but would not manage Reina in that area. "I need to do my job. I’m doing this job and I understand it. I earn money from it. I do everything in the food and beverage sector. I do weddings and receptions. I can also run a buffet. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... I don’t want to run Reina in that area," he also said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Dude, it's Istanbul. The whole city's the site of multiple massacres. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2017-01-28 19:41 |
| #1 Unlike the Twin Towers owners. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-01-28 14:18 |