The history of people of African origin in the Ottoman Empire and modern Türkiye is an important yet comparatively understudied dimension of the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Commonly referred to today as Afro-Turks, these communities appeared through several centuries of interaction between Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and Anatolia. Their history cannot, however, be reduced to the history of slavery ...
People of diverse origins have lived in Turkey under the same umbrella for centuries. Armenians, Greeks, Jews and many other ethnic groups have contributed to Turkish civilization, which created harmony in the Ottoman socio-political sphere. After the French revolution, several nations claimed independence from the multinational states they had lived under. This was a major threat for the multinational empires ...