“I hope that my family who are in Istanbul do not see these images,” Kartal was quoted as saying by Diário de Notícias.





According to reports from Portuguese media, a group of 50 young people raided into Mustafa Kartal’s restaurant Palácio do Kebab in Don Luis Street on April 25 after leaving a party, firing guns.“Give kebab, give money,” Kartal recalled the youths saying.The mob attack was also was recorded on video, showing Kartal defending himself with a meat cleaver.Kartal, meanwhile, vowed to keep doing his business, though it has been only a month he opened his business after arriving in Lisbon four years ago.In addition, Portuguese social media users also reacted to the attack, sending consoling messages and giving the restaurant five-stars on the its Facebook page in solidarity.