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...says. "They had to take me to the hospital to have the pellet removed." The police caught the culprit, a young German, who admitted responsibility. "He fired the gun at me because I was Turkish," said Nilguen. That incident occurred a year ago. More recently, Nilguen's mother Melahab, 39, was accosted in the street by a German youth waving a wooden club and shouting obscenities about foreigners. "He suddenly jumped out from behind a lamppost and threatened me with the stick," she recalls. "He was swearing and saying, 'Get out of Berlin, dirty foreigner. Go back...
...Eksi family lives in a tenement on Beusselstrasse, a bustling street in the working-class Moabit district. Melahab and her husband Mustafa, 45, share a three-room flat with their three youngest sons. Their daughters Nilguen and Aynur, 21, have a small apartment on the top floor of the same building. Mustafa is a forklift operator at the Siemens factory, where he has worked for 15 years. He is a cheerful, gregarious man. The wave of anti-Turkish sentiment has left him puzzled and saddened, and he sees little help from the national government. "I am not political," he says...
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