Afro-Turks (Turkish: Afrikalı Türkler) are Turkish people of African Zanj descent, who trace their origin to the Ottoman slave trade like the Afro-Abkhazians. Afro-Turk population is estimated …

Sep 19, 2023 · Like the Mediterranean Europeans in Southern Europe, the skin of Turkish people will often be olive toned but not especially dark. This makes it seem darker than pink toned …

Turks (Turkish: Türkler), or Turkish people, are the largest Turkic ethnic group, comprising the majority of the population of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. They natively speak the various …

Feb 25, 2022 · Adil, a striking eight-year-old boy with dark skin and green eyes, had the second name “Zenci”, now a pejorative Turkish word for “black”, roughly equivalent to “Negro”.

Sep 17, 2016 · In a country that is once again beginning to acknowledge its diversity and the contributions of so-called minority communities such as the Afro-Turks, Black people in Turkey …

Jul 1, 2021 · Turkey is home to many ethnic and religious minorities, but the Afro-Turks – numbering tens of thousands – is largely invisible. When protests spread from Minneapolis to …

Aug 17, 2023 · Many Turks even from far Western regions can be brown. Turks generally fancy themselves as white Europeans online and claim dark skin is an exclusivity for Kurds, but this …

Afro-Turks, in Turkish Afro-Türkler, also named as Araplar or zenciler, refer to Black people of Turkish citizens whose ancestors once came to the Ottoman Empire from different countrys of …

Aug 31, 2012 · In villages where Afro-Turks have lived side-by-side with ethnic Turkish families for generations, reports of prejudice are remarkably rare. Few Turkish villagers seem to question …

The Afro-Turks represent a cross-cultural encounter and an emergent history. The modern-day descendants of enslaved peoples in the 19th century, the Afro-Turks hail from the global …