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from Lillemor Kuht
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On April 6, 2006, at the age of 21, Halit Yozgat became the ninth victim to be murdered by the NSU in his Internet café in Holländische Straße. Halit Yozgat was born in Kassel’s Nordstadt district. Nordstadt has always been a district characterized by industry, workers and migration. In the 1960s, many migrant workers came to Kassel as a result of the recruitment agreement with Turkey, among other countries. Halit Yozgat’s grandparents and parents also migrated here in the 1960s.
Today, the infrastructure of the district is dominated by migrant self-employed people. For example, until 2006 also from the Yozgat family’s Internet café in Holländische Straße. This place of established migrant life was not chosen by the NSU for an attack by chance. The act was to be understood as a right-wing extremist message, and its shock effect as such continues to this day. Accordingly, it can be assumed that there were local helpers at least for the planning of the murder. However, this question, like so many questions in the NSU complex, has not yet been sufficiently clarified.
In May 2006, one month after the murder, the Yozgat family, together with families of other victims(Şimşek and Kubaşik) and many people, took to the streets demanding “No 10th victim!”. They also addressed a possible racist motive for the acts, which was not pursued by the authorities at the time.
With Halitplatz, there has been a memorial site in the city of Kassel since October 2012. The formerly nameless plaza at the main entrance to the city’s main cemetery was established as a response by the city to the family’s demand that Dutch Street be renamed Halit Street. On the 10-year commemoration of the murder, Ismail Yozgat said the following:
“I have thought a lot about how to protect the coming generation from brown ideas and the consequences thereof. […] That’s why we defined a life task for us – renaming Holländische Straße to Halitstraße. On the one hand, Halit was born in Holländische Straße, lived there and was brutally murdered there. On the other hand, Holländische Straße is a busy and long street. […] With a renaming to Halit Street, I am firmly convinced that many will wonder how the naming took place. Thus, these cruel murders will never be forgotten and the watchful eye will continue to be strengthened. Unfortunately, I am also firmly convinced that with Halit Square and the stop, my motives are insufficiently fulfilled.”
Halit Square is thus also a symbol of a commemorative policy that is not in the interests of those affected. Memorial events for Halit Yozgat are held here every year on April 6.
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Literature and links:
Barbara John (Ed.) (2014): Our Wounds Time Cannot Heal. What the NSU terror means for the victims and relatives. Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Herder.
Ayșe Güleç/ Lee Hielscher (2015): Between Hegemonicity and Multiplicity of Memory. Suchbewegungen einer gesellschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit dem NSU, In: Sebastian Friedrich et.al. (ed.): Der NSU in bester Gesellschaft, Zwischen Neonazismus, Rassismus und Staat, Münster: Unrast Verlag, pp. 144-158.
Özlem Topçu: “He died in my arms,” DIE ZEIT, 11.10.2012
İsmail Yozgat (06.04.2016): Speech by the Yozgat family on April 06, 2016, Edited transcript of the April 6 Initiative.