Yusuf Celik did not arrive in Canada as a refugee in 2013. But he did come here to escape a stream of discrimination that followed him for most of his life.
The now 31-year-old gay man, who has worked on contract for the federal government in Ottawa, was born in Kâhta, a small mainly Kurdish town in the southeastern Turkish province of Adiyaman, and spent his first two decades dealing with blowback based on who he was.
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