Migrant Candidates Face Racism in German Election

BERLIN—More German Turks will operate for election this year than at any time in the previous two a long time, but candidates from Germany’s greatest ethnic minority say they normally encounter racism, underlining the troubles the nation faces in integrating its numerous migrant communities.

“I experienced 400 campaign posters, and I think 250 of them are by now destroyed with racist slurs,” mentioned Orkan Özdemir, a centre-remaining prospect for the Berlin Household of Reps, which elects its associates Sunday, the identical day as the country’s standard election.