The pellet was fired from a neighboring building and hit Nilguen Eksi, 18, as she was sitting by an open window in her parents' flat in West Berlin. "I felt a stab of pain in my right arm and screamed," she 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...
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