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Murat Çakır is seen with his mother, Necla Çakır outside his wife's barber shop. In 1970 he followed his father, who had arrived in 1967 as a guest worker. "At ten I did everything on my own." His mother came in 1971, his brothers one year later. He however returned to Turkey, where he graduated from high school. In 1979 he joined the Turkish Communist Party; later he studied in Germany, became a translator and building promoter. In 2004 Mr. Çakır was a founding member of the WASG (Labor and Social Justice—The Electoral Alternative), in 2017 he ran in Kassel for Lord Mayor on the ticket of Die Linke (The Left). He said, "My home is my wife, my friends, my social network. My fatherland is the earth, my nation is humanity." He describes himself as an internationalist and cosmopolitan and at the same time as a Kassel patriot.
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