The front page of German newspaper Bild features an attention-grabbing story about a former German youth international who has been killed in the Syrian civil war. Burak Karan, who once played alongside Sami Khedira and Kevin-Prince Boateng for Germany’s under-16s and under-17s, recently died in Syria after he joined the rebel fighters in the country.
During his playing career Karan had brief spells at Hamburg, Hannover 96 and Alemannia Aachen, however Karan quit football back in 2008 when he opted to become an Islamist, according to Bild. Burak Karan’s brother, Mustafa, is now leading a campaig to find out how the ex-professional was killed.
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