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 to be between 5,000 and 20,000 people.

2022年2月25日 · Afro Turks are nominally Muslim, with nothing to differentiate them from most Turks apart from an evidently different ethnic makeup. But as a prejudiced ethnic minority, they have tried over...

2021年7月1日 · 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 global communities against the killing of George Floyd, Afro-Turks joined in the global outrage to condemn police brutality in the United States.

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 Africa. They are Sunni Muslims and speak Turkish as first language and fully assimilated in Turkish culture.

Two examples of 20th century Afro-Turks who have had notable careers and firsts are listed here. Ahmet Ali Çelikten, whose mother was enslaved in Bornu (Nigeria) and brought to Istanbul, was one of the few pilots of African descent from various countries to fly military planes in WWI.

2017年10月26日 · The Afro-Turks: Turkey’s Little-known Black Minority Reclaims Its Past. Descendants of African slaves sold to the Ottoman Empire, Afro-Turks seek to revive their ancestors’ traditions – but there are barely any left

2019年7月12日 · They are Turks and black: descendants of the Ottoman Empire's African slave trade form a minority in Turkish society that has long been all but invisible. Now, they’re trying to reappraise...

In this video I Interview and collectively exchange cultural differences with African Turkish people born in Turkey. Take a seat, relax ...more. When It comes to Black Mexicans, Afro...

2016年9月17日 · 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...

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 expanse of the Ottoman Empire in Africa – Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Tanzania.