Afro-Turks

No, that's not a misspelling of "Astroturf".  While reading this post at Winds of Jihad, I learned that Turkey has a black minority, a combination of people descended from slaves brought in during the past and people who immigrated into the country of their own free will.  They are commonly called "Afro-Turks", and like black minorities elsewhere, have faced pervasive discrimination.  Only a dozen days ago did I read and post about the black people of Iraq.

Read more at The Global Dispatches, Qantara and the Hurriyet Daily News, the links coming courtesy of Winds of Jihad.