IN DEPTH: Why Reactive Policing Will Not Break Hold Criminal Gangs Have Over London’s Turkish Community

Published on December 1, 2023

Few areas of London are as synonymous with their local football club as Tottenham and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.. The club’s futuristic £1.2 billion stadium hovers over the district like an alien spaceship which has landed in this crime-ridden spot of north London. A hundred yards across from Tottenham High Road—the main thoroughfare through Tottenham—is the Stadium Lounge, a bar and restaurant which entertains fans before and after home games. In the autumn of 2022, the Stadium Lounge was at the heart of a horrific crime—the torture and killing of DJ and radio personality Koray Alpergin, 43, well known within the 600,000-strong Turkish and Kurdish community of north London....