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Pro-Kurdish candidate fights anti-migrant sentiment in local Turkish elections / 34LZ3RG
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A pro-Kurdish candidate, who lost his arm in prison during a police raid after a hunger strike in 2000, turns three decades of social activism into a fight against the anti-migrant sentiment dominating local elections in Turkey. Veli Sacilik, 47, made a name for himself with a 2017 photograph of demonstrations in Ankara against a civil service purge, where he is seen struggling with his left arm against riot shields. Now the former prisoner is fighting anti-refugee rhetoric which dominates the campaign for municipal elections on March 31 in the city of Bolu in northwestern Turkey. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES