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Crowds on a popular Turkish beach watched in horror as a tourist who decided not to buy a sunbed was beaten up by a resort worker.
The tourist, reportedly British, had been enjoying the sun at Damlatas Beach, Antalya, when he asked the employee how much a sun lounger rental would be.
After discovering the price, it’s said he declined, before placing his things on the sand – the employee told him to move his things away from the resort, but the tourist refused.
Then, violence broke out.
Video footage shows multiple men intervening as the staff member began punching the man and kicking him.
The two were eventually separated, but the clip has sparked online discourse and prompted the district governor to close the sun lounger rental business.
The business owner Serhan Koçaroğlu hit back, claiming the tourist in question had been drunk and even ‘thrown a sunbed’, before attempting to attack Koçaroğlu when he intervened.
Governor Fatih Ürkmezer told local media: ‘Judicial and administrative procedures regarding the attack on a tourist that occurred in a beach business in Alanya in recent days, which does not reflect our city and our understanding of tourism, have been initiated immediately.
‘Approaches that are contrary to the understanding of hospitality of both our city and our country will not be tolerated in Alanya, one of the cities where tourism first began in Turkey.’
2025’s latest spat over sunbeds is just one of the first – at a resort in Lanzarote, one woman screamed ‘you picked on the wrong person’ and threatened to speak to the manager.
That encounter was caught on camera by Callum Lines, 31, after a Scottish woman marched over to a woman on a sunbed, declaring that she had taken her spot.
The resort doesn’t let people reserve loungers – as evidenced by a sign just out of shot – so the woman she is berating gestures at her saying ‘turn around and walk away.
Callum said: ‘The Scottish lady said they had been using those beds all week, accusing the couple lying down of moving their items.
‘The Scottish lady left to apparently seek management but they never showed up.’
It was at this point Callum got involved, referring to the woman as a Karen, sparking the woman’s fury.
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