Wellington - A Turkish Muslim café owner who refused to serve two Israeli women as a protest over the conflict in Gaza had clearly breached their human rights, New Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said on Thursday.
Mustafa Tekinkaya refused to serve the women in his cafe in Invercargill, saying that Israel was killing innocent babies and women in the Gaza Strip. "I have decided as a protest not to serve Israelis until the war stops," he told the Southland Times.
Ali Uzun, who owns the neighbouring Turkish Kebabs shop in New Zealand's southernmost city, told the paper he was also refusing to serve Israelis.