Family members from enemy Turkish kebab shops – who cut each other with metal poles in a brawl – have been jailed.
Footage captured by CCTV shows the attackers, aged between 17 and 52, slashing and stabbing each other using a variety of tools, from sticks used in their kebab shops to walking sticks.
The incident happened in Commercial Road in Newport, Wales, in August, in broad daylight, in front of shocked customers.
Newport Crown Court heard how the seven men who took part in the fight all suffered gash and slash wounds from the ‘significant physical violence’.
Sentencing the seven men, judge Richard Kember said the incident was ‘a disgraceful outbreak of violence and disorder,’ the BBC reported.
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Mehmet Aksoy, 52, Mazhar Aksoy 40, Murat Aksoy, 28, Burak Aksoy, 25, Savas Sayak, 34, Yagmur Sayak, 43, Firat Sayak, 45, previously admitted violent disorder in September.
A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named because of his young age, will be sentenced at youth court.
The fighting took place between the Aksoy family, who own Family Kebab on Caerleon Road, and the Sayak family, who own Antalya Kebab.
The video showed the fight began when Firat Sayak struck Mehmet Aksoy outside the kebab shop before the pair began hitting each other against a car and then dropping to the ground.
Other family members rushed to the scene after Mehmet Aksoy made a phone call, the prosecutor told the court.
His family member, Murat Aksoy, arrived in a grey Mercedes, brandishing a metal pole out of the window.
This caused Firat Sayak to ‘respond in kind’ and brandish his own weapon through the kebab shop window.
Members of both families then continued attacking each other, leading to a number of injuries.
At the end of the fight, people were even forced to remove their shirts to use as ‘makeshift bandages’, while others could be seen with blood on them, the court heard.
Police arrived shortly after the fight ended and found Savas Sayak ‘with a severe head wound’ and Yagmar Sayak with ‘multiple injuries to his head’.
It is understood that the ‘origin of the animosity’ between them involved ‘infighting’ between people connected to the families in Turkey.
In mitigation, the court heard there has been a wider process of conciliation between the Sayak and Aksoy families with the help of the Kurdish and Turkish communities in Wales.
Judge Kember said: ‘The communities have been concerned about this event and concerned it does not reflect Kurdish and Turkish values.’
Mehmet, Murat, and Mazhar Aksoy, and Savas and Firat Sayak, were each sentenced to 24 months imprisonment.
Burak Aksoy and Yagmur Sayak were each sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, suspended for 21 months, and were ordered to carry out 150 hours unpaid work.
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