INJURED BIKIE NABBED FOR LOGAN SHOOTING
A BIKIE and MMA fighter shot eight times on the Gold Coast last week has been arrested for his alleged role in an earlier shooting – one police believe led to the revenge attack on him.
Rebels bikie gang member Gokhan “Pitbull” Turkyilmaz looked relax and smiled at a Bulletin camera as he was led into the Southport Watchhouse by police last night.
It comes just over a week after he was peppered with bullets when a group of up to five masked men stormed his Upper Coomera house last Tuesday night.
Police believe it was revenge for the shooting of a Bandidos bikie, allegedly by a group of Rebels, at the Logan Hyperdome shopping centre on February 4.
The two shootings, and the recent firebombing of a Brendale tattoo parlour owned by Rebels gang member “Little Mick” Kosenko, has sparked fears of a bikie war.
Turkyilmaz, 33, taunted his attackers on social media after being released from Gold Coast University Hospital last Friday.
“Shot eight times, will take more than that to put me away,” he captioned a Snapchat video. “I’ve had harder sparring sessions. I’m alive and well.”
Police sources said Turkyilmaz had been arrested over the Hyperdome shooting and was expected to be charged last night. His younger brother Emrah was arrested last week.