The father of a Scottish toddler shot dead on a family holiday yesterday called on the Turkish Government to tackle the country's "enormous" gun culture.

David Grimason, from East Kilbride, travelled to Izmir, home city of his wife, Ozlem, to join a demonstration calling for tighter gun controls in Turkey.

His two-year-old son Alistair was shot dead after a gunfight broke out in a cafe in the quiet coastal resort of Foca in July 2003.

Mr Grimason's mother and grandmother had gone to the cafe for a meal and Alistair had been asleep in his pushchair when the gunfight broke out at a nearby table.

Daimi Akyuz was found guilty of killing Alistair and jailed for 36 years in July 2004. Since the shooting, Mr Grimason and his wife have campaigned for tighter gun controls. Estimates suggest there are seven million unregistered guns in Turkey and every year people die in incidents involving handguns.

Mr Grimason said: "The Turkish Government need to accept the enormity of the problem and take the necessary actions in the interest of public safety."