On August 12, 2024, a teenager only identified as ‘Arda K’ waded into the dining area of an open-air cafe in Eskisehir, Turkey and stabbed five people, a chest-mounted camera streaming the attack live on Kick. The victims—one of whom nearly died after having his throat slit with a camping knife—had all spent time earlier in the day praying at a nearby mosque. As well as the two knives and small axe Arda K was carrying, he was also wearing a vest bearing the Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) symbol associated with neo-Nazism.

A few weeks ago, on September 25, Arda—whose full surname, Küçükyetim, has subsequently come out in the press—was sentenced to 75 years and five months in prison for the attacks. A couple of months before that, another man named Skyler Philippi pleaded guilty to attempting t

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