Süleyman Taşköprü was born in Istanbul in 1970. He was a diligent student and wanted to become an architect. In 1981, his parents brought him to Germany, where his father worked as a ship welder. Süleyman grew up with two sisters and a brother in Hamburg-Altona, graduated from secondary school and enjoyed playing soccer and backgammon. He worked for a camera company in the early 1990s and later took over his brother’s fruit and vegetable store. In 1998, his first child was born, a daughter whom he loved dearly and called ‘my little princess.’ The Taşköprü Market was a meeting place for the family, who would get together there for a meal after work. Together with his sister Ayşen Taşköprü, Süleyman Taşköprü planned to open a wine store in the adjacent building.

On 27 June 27, 2001, Süleyman Taşköprü and his father were working in the store. The father left briefly to get some olives. When he returned, he found his son dying. Süleyman was the third victim in a series of murders that the NSU only claimed responsibility for ten years later. Until then, the police investigation focused primarily on Taşköprü’s extended family, despite the fact that the father had reported seeing two ‘Germans’ near the crime scene.

There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the NSU and the murder of Süleyman Taşköprü. Despite demands of the family, the Hamburg parliament has repeatedly decided against setting up a parliamentary committee of inquiry, making Hamburg the only federal state with an NSU murder victim in which there was no committee of inquiry.

In 2012, the city of Hamburg erected a memorial stone in front of the building where the Taşköprü store was located. Ayşen Taşköprü had a red star with a picture of her brother's face made, like on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After a visit to the USA, she had jokingly promised him just such a memorial, because of his resemblance to and the actor Sylvester Stallone, and because he was such a fan: ‘I never thought I would have to keep my promise in such a sad way.’

After the NSU revealed itself in 2011, relatives and activists called for Schützenstraße to be renamed in memory of Süleyman Taşköprü. In 2014, the district of Altona renamed a section of Kohlentwiete to Taşköprüstraße after residents of Schützenstraße protested against the renaming. At the time, the only buildings in the renamed section of the street were two businesses. The residetial part of the street is still called Kohlentwiete. In November 2021, a memorial tree for Süleyman Taşköprü was planted in front of the Altona Town Hall on the initiative of a group from Zwickau and at the family’s request.