After Generations of Assimilation in Turkey, Afro-Turks are Fighting to Reclaim Their Heritage and Identity
By
David Love -
September 17, 2016
Although this is unknown to many, there are up to 100,000 people of African descent in the nation of Turkey. A legacy of the Ottoman Empire and of the African slave trade, Afro-Turks, as they are called, have lost their language and have a renewed interest in discovering who they are and from whence they came.
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