"Eat & Release": Firms Battle Over "Mantı" Customers, in Maltepe, Istanbul

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 6 October 2024)

   

          It really is so good it's worth fighting over. 

Yesterday at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in the Zümrütevler

neighborhood of Maltepe, Istanbul, there was an attack on a

"mantı" (dish prepared with paste, ground meat and yogurt)

bakery.  (!)

Customers of a "mantı" bakery in Izmir that had been shut 

down by the Agriculture Ministry had contacted the Maltepe 

bakery about supplying them with "mantı".  Hearing this, 

the owners of the censored Izmir firm came to Maltepe and 

a argument erupted, with the Izmirites shooting and 

wounding the Maltepe owner Sinan Balkaya and his sons

Caner and Aytaç Balkaya, all of whom were taken to a 

hospital for treatment. 

Police are pursing the Izmirites who fled the scene. 

For some yummy "mantı"...