On November 15th, 22-year old Turkish-German student Tugce Albayrak was at a McDonald’s in the city of Offenbach (near Frankfurt), when she heard cries for help coming from the restaurant’s bathroom. When Albayrak headed in to investigate, she discovered that two teenage girls were being harassed by three grown men. Albayrak intervened, broke up the ugly situation, and the teen girls fled.

The story should have ended there, with that act of bravery, but tragically, later that night in the parking lot of that same McDonald’s, one of the men returned to attack Albayrak. She received a blow to the head, and fell. Albayrak stayed in a coma for almost two weeks, until November 28th, when her parents decided to take her off of life support on what would have been her 23rd birthday.

Her attacker, an 18-year old man who confessed to the crime, and is currently being held in police custody, awaiting trial, where it’s believed he will be charged with assault resulting in unintentional manslaughter.

Albayrak’s nation—and the world—mourn the loss of this young woman whose moral compass unwaveringly pointed north and who possessed such rare courage More than 100,000 people have signed a petition asking Germany to posthumously honor Albayrak with .the country’s Federal Order Of Merit, one of the highest honors a civilian can receive, and the state premier has made it clear that it is his intention to push for her to receive this honor.

Meanwhile, President Joachim Gauck praised Albayrak’s bravery, in the following letter to her family:

“Like countless citizens, I am shocked and appalled by this terrible act. Tugce has earned gratitude and respect from us all. She will always remain a role model to us, our entire country mourns with you. Where other people looked the other way, Tugce showed exemplary courage and moral fortitude.”

Link to page: http://hellogiggles.com/tugce-albayrak/#read

Found this a little while back. Figured I'd share it. Makes my head spin a little bit considering the fact that you look all around and you see the retarded "feminists" as they supposedly claim the mantel to and they're still around doing nothing when you can take one look at this person's eyes and know that this was a decent person. It's a damn fucking shame.

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Albayrak’s nation—and the world—mourn the loss of this young woman whose moral compass unwaveringly pointed north and who possessed such rare courage More than 100,000 people have signed a petition asking Germany to posthumously honor Albayrak with .the country’s Federal Order Of Merit, one of the highest honors a civilian can receive, and the state premier has made it clear that it is his intention to push for her to receive this honor.

She broke up a little incident in a McDonald's bathroom. She doesn't deserve jack. The award is just because she died which is a stupid reason.

She was killed for defending a couple of girls from a group of thugs.  She's getting the award for the courage she showed since it was just her against three guys.  Most people would just either gawk or stare at a situation like this.

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Albayrak’s nation—and the world—mourn the loss of this young woman whose moral compass unwaveringly pointed north and who possessed such rare courage More than 100,000 people have signed a petition asking Germany to posthumously honor Albayrak with .the country’s Federal Order Of Merit, one of the highest honors a civilian can receive, and the state premier has made it clear that it is his intention to push for her to receive this honor.

She broke up a little incident in a McDonald's bathroom. She doesn't deserve jack. The award is just because she died which is a stupid reason.

Well, when you get killed because some prick didn't like that you did a good thing, then you deserve some recognition.

She broke up an incident in a public bathroom. She didn't notify authorities, the girls parent or even the McDonalds staff.

She let the girls leave the McDonalds unsupervised. The Bullies also presumably left at the same time. They could have easily have decided to attack the teen girls walking home instead of going back for Albayrak in the McDonalds you know.

Even if you're just out for a troll, read the fucking article.  The Mickey D staff were told they had to follow the company's non-intervention policy (the most retarded rule on the planet).  You still don't know the full story yourself, but perhaps local media knew what happened since she gained worldwide recognition.

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Albayrak’s nation—and the world—mourn the loss of this young woman whose moral compass unwaveringly pointed north and who possessed such rare courage More than 100,000 people have signed a petition asking Germany to posthumously honor Albayrak with .the country’s Federal Order Of Merit, one of the highest honors a civilian can receive, and the state premier has made it clear that it is his intention to push for her to receive this honor.

She broke up a little incident in a McDonald's bathroom. She doesn't deserve jack. The award is just because she died which is a stupid reason.

Well, when you get killed because some prick didn't like that you did a good thing, then you deserve some recognition.

She broke up an incident in a public bathroom. She didn't notify authorities, the girls parent or even the McDonalds staff.

She let the girls leave the McDonalds unsupervised. The Bullies also presumably left at the same time. They could have easily have decided to attack the teen girls walking home instead of going back for Albayrak in the McDonalds you know.

Even if you're just out for a troll, read the fucking article.  The Mickey D staff were told they had to follow the company's non-intervention policy (the most retarded rule on the planet).  You still don't know the full story yourself, but perhaps local media knew what happened since she gained worldwide recognition.

Notifying a McDonald's employee =/= Making a McDonald's employee intervene in an incident.

Yeah, I'm done with you.  But as a final post in response, this is from another article linked in the original article:

McDonald's, facing criticism from Tugce's family, has reviewed videotapes of the incident and defended the original non-intervention of its employees.

www.dw.de/germany-mourns-death-of-courageous-tugce/a-18101069

The employees knew, they just didn't want to lose their burger flipper jobs for being a good person.

*Sigh* Breaking my own oath because I can't stand to let stupidity be unchallenged.

I'm sure the employeess heard the incident. (The incident in the bathroom which has no cameras).

Yup, because they chose not to intervene to save their burger-flipping asses.

but that still doesn't say whether or not Albayrak even attempted to notify employees of anything.

What would be the point of notifying them if they heard the screams, but were just standing there with their greasy thumbs up their asses?  Someone near you is screaming for help, do you immediately run in there to help or go up to the employees, spend several seconds trying to get their attention, and then tell them what happened before they give you a lecture about their non-intervention policy.  By then, something could've happened in that bathroom.

Also you are still missing the larger point where she let the girls leave a public restaurant unsupervised. She could have attempted to hold them there and contact their parents.

The articles never stated that, so for all you know the thugs left first and the girls left a while after.  Later that night (which suggests quite a bit of time has passed since the incident) a thug approaches the student and beats her into a coma because she dared stand up to him.

As for not contacting their parents, yes how dare she not confine two distraught teenagers to a place where they were cornered and harassed, probably wanting to get the hell out of there ASAP.  For all you know, she probably did ask but the girls didn't want to discuss personal information and left.

What she did was common decency.

No, I don't think being killed for defending other people is particularly common, especially for a teenager. That's kind of the point.

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What she did was common decency.

No, I don't think being killed for defending other people is particularly common, especially for a teenager. That's kind of the point.

She didn't exactly plan on getting killed, now, did she?

Standing up for others shouldn't be treated some heroic act, it's just what's right.

Except here's the thing. While standing up for others is what's right, it's not always easy. Humans have two primary reactions. Flight, or Fight. Flight is a powerful overrider, and at that point, morals take a backseat. Fighting the urge to run takes guts.

When you walk into somebody getting smacked around by a 6ft fucking giant, and you're smaller than him, going up to him and saying "Hey buddy, take it easy," isn't a fucking picnic. You want to walk away. Avoid the situation.

And if you want to bring commendations into this, let's talk about soldiers, or police officers. Why do they get commondations? Because they did things that took guts to do, and it got them killed. Police officers, have an incredibly stressful job. I know in the states, things work a little different, but up here, our police force lives by protect and serve.

The people come first. And in a lot of cases, officers die because they follow these rules. They protect the people, even if it means the officers themselves get shot at first before opening fire.

The point is, sometimes doing what's right isn't easy. And it takes true guts to follow that, to stay on that road, and never faulter from it. I have been subject to flight. Avoiding doing what was right. And I'm sure at least once in your lives, most of you people have too.

But if you're talking about "doing what's right" as if it's a common, everyday thing that's easy to do, then maybe you haven't been in that situation before.

When you're a woman, and you walk in on three guys, physically stronger, more agressive than you, and likely larger than you, walking into that for a stranger, is gutsy. And the amount of fear that she would have had to fight off, to turn around, and simply walk away, would have been enormous.

Because I know I'd be worried too if I walked up on three guys, angry, and visibly aggressive.

The point here isn't about what she did being right. It's about the fact she had guts in line with a police officer going to work and potentially being shot at every day, or a soldier standing up and defending one's home.

ITT: Nobody fucking replies to my reasonably thought out counter arguments to the fact that the woman above is fucking dead because she had guts in line with the likes of a soldier or police officer, most of which average people don't.

Even if she's getting a commondetion mainly due to the fact that she died, why does it make a difference? Why should that be important?

Take one fucking look into her eyes. And tell me that wasn't a good human being. Medal or no, what really matters is the fact that a special person is now dead. A candle winked out, a life was lost, and it's fucking terrible.

ITT: Nobody fucking replies to my reasonably thought out counter arguments to the fact that the woman above is fucking dead because she had guts in line with the likes of a soldier or police officer, most of which average people don't.

Are you seriously comparing calling out a couple of shitheads to a soldier going to war? That's almost as ridiculous as getting PTSD from twitter posts.