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The Afro-Turks: a call for study and inclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Adesanya M. Alabi
Adesanya M. Alabi*
Affiliation:
Karabuk University, Turkey
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Migration – forced or voluntary – is a constant in human history. The African diaspora as a result of the Atlantic slave trade has been much studied. The story of the Afro-Turks is less well known. This article explores the possibility of building an archive and recording oral histories. It attempts to evaluate the available resources about the Afro-Turks in the modern Turk state of Turkey and asks: When, how and from where did African people come to Turkey? How do they understand their history? And what is their place, as an ethnic minority, in modern Turkey?

On June 11,2013, a great crowd of the people converged at Gazi Park, Istanbul to express their displeasure at the news that the Turkish government under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan planned to use the greenish park for the erection of a Mall.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 137 , 2020 , pp. 35 - 47
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Copyright © International African Institute 2020

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