Veli Saçılık (born 1977) is a Turkish sociologist, activist, and author. Saçılık, who lost one of his arms at the demolishing of a prison wall by a bulldozer during the "Return to Life Operation" in Burdur Prison on 5 July 2000, started to work as a civil servant at Çankaya Population Directorate. Then he studied sociology and started to work as a sociologist in Ankara Provincial Directorate of Ministry of Labour and Social Security. During the 2018 Turkish parliamentary election, he was the candidate on HDP for Ankara's 3rd district but did not succeed in entering the parliament.