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German Secret Services linked to Doener Murders[1].Derisively dubbed the “Döner (Kebab) Murders” because the victims included eight Turks and one Greek, the bumbling authorities assumed they had somehow been involved in a foreign criminal underworld rather than victims of wanton neo-Nazi violence. But that all changed last week when it emerged that they had actually been brutally slain between 2000 and 2006 by a far-right terror group calling itself the Nationalist Socialist Underground (NSU). Intelligence services had at least three informants in the neo-Nazi scene linked to the terror group that went on to kill at least ten people, according to Der Spiegel magazine. Chancellor Angela Merkel called for authorities to work more effectively together, and lessons to be learned from their failure to stop the group. “I never want a secret service to have total power again. But the authorities have to inform each other, of course,” she said in a weekly podcast. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has called for the federal prosecutor to have increased powers to be able to take on a case, particularly when a criminal case crosses state borders. “The Brown Army Faction” was the title story on the new edition of Der Spiegel news magazine, a reference to the colour of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party and the name of the Red Army Faction (RAF) responsible for attacks in the 1970s and 1980s. 
About three million people with Turkish roots live in Germany, a third of whom are German citizens. Germany last month commemorated the 50th anniversary of the labour agreement which first brought large numbers of Turks to the country to help meet its dire labour shortage.
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Two suspects believed to be members of a neo-Nazi terror cell involved in killing at least 10 people[2], mostly of Turkish, have been arrested, German prosecutors said. In a video which they apparently planned to send to German media outlets, the alleged terrorists claim to have killed eight ethnic Turks, one ethnic Greek that looked like a Turk and a police officer from 2000 to 2007, prosecutors said. The attacks occurred all over Germany and became known as the "Doener Murder Series."

[1] Until the arrests, police had not thought they were committed by the same people. The Bosphorus serial murders also known as Döner murders, the term often used by the media, were a series of murders that took place in Germany between 2000 and 2006, leaving ten people dead and one wounded. The perpetrators called themselves National Socialist Underground (NSU) (German: Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund). The primary target of these right-wing extremist-oriented crimes were predominantly immigrants of Turkish origin and one person of Greek origin. The victims were mostly small business owners (doner kebab vendors, grocers, locksmiths, alteration tailors, internet café) who were murdered in broad daylight by being shot in the face with a CZ 83. According to the parents of the Turkish victim who worked in an internet café, the police originally suspected foreign organised criminals. Furthermore, a German policewoman, Michéle Kiesewetter, was shot as well and her partner was critically wounded. Other crimes, in particular a bomb attack, have allegedly been committed by the group. The murders, according to the acting Attorney General of Germany, Rainer Greisbaum, have Neo-Nazi links.

The German authorities identified three suspects, Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos, and Beate Zschäpe as responsible for the murders and attempted murders. Böhnhardt and Mundlos were found dead[3] by police after they robbed a bank on 4 November 2011. Police say they committed suicide. Zschäpe turned herself in on 11 November 2011. She will probably face charges of murder, attempted murder, arson, and belonging to a terrorist organization. Zschäpe is only willing to testify if she is considered a state witness, with mitigation of sentence.[citation needed] The police had discovered a hit list of 88 people later.

[2] Enver Şimşek, Nuremberg 9 September 2000 | Abdurrahim Özüdoğru,Nuremberg 13 June 2001| Süleyman Taşköprü,Hamburg 27 June 2001| Habil Kılıç,Munich 29 August 2001 | Yunus Turgut,Rostock 25 February 2004 | İsmail Yaşar,Nuremberg 5 June 2005 | Theodoros Boulgarides,Munich 15 June 2005 | Mehmet Kubaşık,Dortmund 4 April 2006| Halit Yozgat,Kassel 6 April 2006 | Michéle Kiesewetter Heilbronn 25 April 2007 .

[3]Michéle Kiesewetter's death in a parking lot in Heilbronn on 25 April 2007 is considered by some to be linked to the Bosphorus murder series. This is mainly due to the fact, that she was killed by the same weapon as the other victims. Kiesewetter, who was a police officer, was killed, when she and her partner were attacked during lunch break. Her partner was critically wounded, but survived with no memory of the attack. While in the other cases the motive is assumed to be xenophobia and/or racism it is unclear why Kiesewetter and her partner were attacked. Theories about the murder include a variety of motives such as a personal link between Kiesewetter, who came from Thuringia as the alleged perpetrators, or the acquisition of firearms. The service pistols of Kiesewetter and her partner had been stolen and turned up later on the scene of the suicide of two of the alleged perpetrators.