Afro-Turks on the legacy of the Ottoman Empire's slave trade | Focus on Europe | Focus on Europe

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 their history.
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[@gizemakbal6449]

Such a horrible translation. He say i feel shy They translate i feel terrified.

[@aoifewest]

germans are not very good in foreign languages anymore. it is shocking

[@lokumftw2621]

aoifewest , they are good enough believe me. It’s all just done on purpose to mislead the audience.

[@user-kp9of7re9q]

They know what they do

[@PRBlue0]

Well that's DW news for ya , trying to slander turks in anyway possible when they get the chance

[@LazierSophie]

If he feels shy, it is because he is afraid of ethnic discrimination. Shy persons are generally people who are afraid of an imminent danger. Utangaç insanlar genellikle yakın bir tehlikeden korkanlardır.

[@turkishpunisher6386]

Sure, thats why the first blackman in aviation history was an ottoman fighter.

[@deiongoldsmith515]

I remember searching that when I was younger would you be able to send a link I don't remember his name!

[@turkishpunisher6386]

@@deiongoldsmith515 His name is Ahmet Ali Çelikten.

[@deiongoldsmith515]

@@turkishpunisher6386 thank you!

[@turkishpunisher6386]

@@deiongoldsmith515 You are welcome.

[@turkishpunisher6386]

@Johnny Bravo wow, you hispanics can type in english? Pretty good amigo. But you have to learn a bit more.

[@bilgekhan6577]

Love Afroturks. From Turkey

Bilge Khan Lack of emotional intelligence!

[@sabahsabrie1426]

Somalia 🇸🇴 live ottoman

[@sabahsabrie1426]

Ottoman never slave

[@rosesteel4317]

​@@sabahsabrie1426 🇸🇴🇹🇷

[@jeffersonaraldi7168]

​@@sabahsabrie1426Well, Turks are people of colour too.

[@nonda64]

1:50 he doesnt say there was always something missing, he says there was an awareness issue, dont change their words in order to propagate sth. There are several translations from deutsche welle in this video which are willingly wrong translated.

[@mwangasama]

What do you think they are propagating? To not be aware is to have something missing

[@gfoot9916]

It’s the same intent you donkey

[@begununal917]

and he said "When I was a child, I was shyer", not "When I was a child it was worse". I cant stop laughing while watching this video :D

[@pxpq]

Bu arada sen yanlış anlamışsın. 1:43'te bir eksiklik vardı bunda diyor.

[@umitkiziltas1222]

@@mwangasama That´s not how perception in psychology works. The media is not called the 4th authority for nothing .

[@R2d2..]

Majority of slaves in the ottoman empire were white, eastern Europeans. I wonder why no one talks about that.

[@lmao5070]

White women were highly asked for. They were used as $ex slaves. The ottomans would buy them and k!ll their husband or enslave the husband also. There is diary of a German man who was enslaved by the ottoman available online.

[@blackpalacemusic]

....because white people own most media companies, including this one so they only portray themselves in positions of power.

[@wzupppp]

Thats common knowledge buddy

[@kurekiller6070]

Wonder why? Because they’re immediately accepted after one or two generations but darker skin is more apparent. And don’t get me started on turkeys love for anything white.

[@--galip]

Dw kanalı videolarını izlediğimde açıkça Türkiyede karşı olduklarını anlayabiliyorsunuz. Çocuğun söylediği çocukken daha cekingendim cümlesini bile çocukken daha kötüydü diye çevirmişler. Fransız ve Alman kanalları bize karşı pek objektif değiller maalesef. Alıştım artık KZbindaki videolarda Türklerin kötülenmesi artık. Türkiyedeki afrika kökenli insanlara gelecek olursak bence Avraupadaki kadar bir ırkçılık yok ama ülkemizde fazla olmadıkları için bir merak konusu olabiliyor bazen, benim memleketimde ornegin siyahı birini görünce millet uzun uzun bakar hoş birsey değil tabi ama ırkçılık olsun diye değil meraktan bakar millet. Yinede ben bir Türk olarak afrika kökenli vatandaşlarımızı bu ülke için kültürel bir zenginlik olarak gördüm hep. Umarım herkesi ırkına göre değil karakterine göre değerlendiririz ilerde.

[@myname1700]

kesinlikle ama gercek sorun türkce yayinlarinda oldukca objektif olup yada cok az taraftar almanca ve ingilizce yayinlarinde hic objektif degiller ve resmen tarafci bir tutum icindeler ama en profesyonel manipulasyon icinde olanlar BBC

[@deezalmonds7680]

Cok guzel bir yorum kardesim.

[@YakrifZee]

What a mature comment. You dropped this sultan : 👑.

[@goankmahdi2022]

They weren't slaves, they were soldiers for the ottoman empire.

[@aksry6885]

soras S says an american you Guys are worse.

[@caseyjason-ws3fr]

@@aksry6885 So you are fighting who is worse,you are both Worse,FULL STOP..

[@aksry6885]

casey jason no

[@caseyjason-ws3fr]

@@aksry6885 Yes

[@burakkara9171]

not soldier , ottoman soldiers have never been african .

[@fiorylolo]

they were soldiers not slaves I am sudanese too.

[@user-ow4qc3lc1b]

Or slave-soldiers? Nubians are used to be that in Hellenistic era

[@fiorylolo]

@@user-ow4qc3lc1b no.that's why sudanese people not only the government welcomed Erdogan IN 2017 watch the videos ,they don't trust arab or europe but because what turkish and ottom done in the past was good .

[@blackpinkinyourarea1839]

Crow29Darkness oh ffs stop lying you lot sold your daughters for money and royalty

[@hudayiask536]

@Crow29Darkness different side of looking.Its your side that looking schools are slavery for childern,soldires are slave of goverment or officers are also slave.Working and server for palaca was honor that not everyone can got that chance but you have to think in middle age's mind.

[@kaganayhan8437]

@@user-ow4qc3lc1b nope

[@ericcartman2604]

Ottomans have ruled almost 1/3 of the world but when u look at the fact in those places no one speak turkish no one was slave and have not been forced to change their religion i think first of all europe has to look their dark background

[@Kristov818]

Jahiz Harith sarcasm at its best, turks should look up turkification since they are all the product of it

[@africaine4889]

@Jahiz Harith thank u

[@nonda64]

@@africaine4889 for what?!?!?!?

[@nonda64]

Truth hurts, true words ! 👏👏

[@BrotherGamingTR]

@@Fihtseich any knowlodge of history ?

[@patrickuwizeyimana52]

People always forget that East Africa was once a victim of this cruel slave trade by arabs and indians through indian ocean to middle east and Brazil. Forgotten sad fact 😢

[@rakeshtiwari1822]

lol indians ???? or Indians under turkic rule ?

[@DevenderSingh-xg5ek]

You need to learn more . Indian were also victims of slave trade Read about indian people in Mauritius and Fiji and carribian island 🏝️

[@scientistx5717]

@@rakeshtiwari1822 we never conquered them lol that was the other goverment ottomans were not even close to that place 😂😂😂😂

[@gloriaklein4706]

Nah Indians weren't conquerors...its the Portuguese, Persians etc....

[@farda8473]

More accurately they were the victim of other east africans who raided and sold them to arabs/ berbers and europeans. It is easy to blame it all always on others...

[@SalmanKhan-xb7um]

DW always shows a negative image of Turkey, TRT shows their positive side,

[@youkiddinme6882]

Salmankhan Pathan They showed nothing negative and TRT is government run shitshow.

[@Big-BossX]

@@youkiddinme6882 you dont even live here bro this whole thing is poorly and in some places purposely wrong translation. We love our Africans

[@youkiddinme6882]

Jack Swift I live in Izmir the country is extremely racist and homophobic even here.

[@nicholastan8814]

@@Big-BossX trt is biased, they just show the good side of turkey. They have never mention the Greek pogroms of Istanbul.

[@youkiddinme6882]

@@eges72 Sen kimsin lan denyo

[@mimimeryem2856]

My dads family is afro Turk &&& they will not allow you to call them anything but Turk

[@Wrtvrxgvcf55]

and if you take a blood sample it says 100% african? they were taken as slaves from their native country, which was a mistake. but letting them stay within Turkey is another mistake. they must be repatriated to Africa, and this should be funded by the turkish state.

[@mimimeryem2856]

@@Wrtvrxgvcf55 They love being in turkey and claiming themselves as Turkish, the Turkish government took them in when their own continent didnt so there is no issue on their side to be honest

[@jan4230]

@@Wrtvrxgvcf55 As long as they identify themselves as Turks, it's not your place to judge,bud. They're children of this country as well as other ethnicities.

[@hasseaouled6032]

That is so cool.

[@sportler777]

@@Wrtvrxgvcf55 huh? So because there genes are different they can't identifiy them selfes as turkish people? If they're born here, were raised here and like to live here then thats there choice to identify as whatever they want.

[@moin7427]

Please hire better interpreters and translators for your channel DW. You ruined all the positive vibe of this video & made it look like they were complaining but in reality they were just talking about their life casually. He didn't say he was terrifies, he said he was shy. He said there's lack of awareness not "something missing"

[@MINECRAFTARABIC2012]

I live in Turkey and I think most Turkish people don't do any racist stuff against Afro-Turk people but rather they might not know anything about them or just be surprised ... It's wonderful to see them living happy :))

[@olivercetus6956]

Not really türklerde ırkçı olabiliyorlar turkiyede siyahilere karşı ırkçılığın olmadığını söylemek oldukça yanlış

[@lmao5070]

@@olivercetus6956 turks hate themselves. How can they not hate anyone else?

[@ozerozcenk1070]

​@@olivercetus6956Kişi kendinden bilir işi 😂

[@jimmyandtaylorperry7735]

I had my autosomal DNA analyzed, and I found a little surprise. I was born in America, but I discovered that I am part Turkish and Iranian. This knowledge led me on a quest to research my western Asia genealogy, and this is how I learned about the Arab Slave Trade. I am not ashamed of my heritage nor do I want my Iranian and Turkish distant cousins to feel sadness or guilt about the choices their forefathers made. I have always lived my life with love and acceptance of people from every ethnicity and socioeconomic background. My discovery simply means that I have more people on this large planet whom I call family.

[@segwhkamaza6447]

Potentially everyone was slave in ottoman so noone feels sad and actually u can find people who are proud about it

[@AfG_313]

What do U mean Iranian? From Iran? Even in Iran there are many ethnicity’s the Iranian family goes all the way to even Pakistan lol I could say im from the Iranian family too but it’s more to it

[@BrandonSmith-rb1bf]

I wonder if your ancestors came from the southern part of Africa. Darn. I would really like to know. I've learned that the Portuguese met up with the Arabs and sold a lot of southern Africans as far east as China. As well as south America

[@aizac91]

You are not Turkish ethnically, you’ve been slave then brought over by the Ottoman Turkish to turkey. That’s different that the ethnic ottomans Turkish who went to turkey and established what the world know as ‘turkey’ today. The ethnic Turkish people are the Caucasians from the Caucasus near southern Russia. You cannot just claim yourself Turkish. And Afro-Turks appeared because of the slave trade, if the slave trade never happened, there will be no “Afro-Turks”. Also Caucasians are not Europeans just to put it out there. There’s no such thing as a “Caucasian race” like the US wants us to believe.

[@BrandonSmith-rb1bf]

@@aizac91 If you are not European then what are you, Asian??? And she knows she is not "ethnically Turk" thats the point she is making in her comment

[@mrsporty9669]

Live together in peace and love 🌹🇹🇷

[@tiffanyr4355]

This should have more likes..because that's the key instead of ignorance

[@aman-hl9re]

🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

[@lyndonchapman2057]

Now you want peace, and I want justice, ALLAH will give justice no peace.

[@R2d2..]

@@lyndonchapman2057 1. You are a racist and not a victim 2. Majority of slaves in the ottoman empire were white, eastern Europeans. In other words it has nothing to do with their skin tone. Calm down you’re not a victim.

[@maliekjcksn]

I'm starting to think that the Media enjoys making negative videos about the African diaspora of the world.

[@AAAAAAA66879]

i think victimisation cant work for everything mate. chill.

[@nzdjdjdjd7098]

These are afro turks that migrated

[@ademcali5498]

They always try to make my African brothers seems oppressed in the world I’m not African but I know of ur struggle always perceived as weak or more

[@historyonthego]

Is this negative?

[@slickrick2420]

@@nzdjdjdjd7098 Migrated? You mean kidnapped?

[@turan8]

I always find it funny when Germans try to find racism in other places. Why don't they look in their fathers first?

[@LordHugorion]

you have no idea....

[@gamermapper]

Turkey did the same as Germany with Armenians

[@turan8]

@@gamermapper big difference was that Armenians started an armed uprising during wartime.

[@gamermapper]

@@turan8 killing millions of people isn't OK in any way lol.

[@turan8]

@@gamermapper if it was millions than you wouldn't be watching the Kardashians like you do now because the census records show 1.139 million Armenians for the whole ottoman empire. If you're worried about real genocides focus on native Americans killed by USA, Indians, Pakistanis, and South Africans killed by UK, Rwandans killed by Belgium, and Algerians killed by French. Those together are hundreds of millions of people.

[@lutas9628]

Demanding their place in society? Literally no one said anything about that. They already have their place in turkish society

[@diazcastro7331]

a socaity which stares at you like a wild animal . i am sure that man is not confirtable . the staring is too much

[@Siqipilaci]

@@diazcastro7331 Dude, Turks stare at everything that can walk. They also stare at me while I‘m being in Turkey. It is just their behavior.

[@sorrybro4890]

@@Siqipilaci middle Eastern are xenophobic but not racist toward specific group Which is good

[@Siqipilaci]

@@sorrybro4890 Well, that’s true but I don‘t like the word Middle East. This Region is much more complex and divided than people believe.

[@Kereka]

@@diazcastro7331 turks even stare at their own people like wild animals, because if they dont know you or if they dont know your intent or purpose they are suspicious of you, because many turks are known too be paranoid af, I mean even my dad looks at me sometimes like im a random bloke and he could snap at me anytime if I annoy him or say something he doesnt want to hear Thats how many of our people are I guess, not because we hate other cultures or enthnicities we are just too afraid that the other person could be harmful to our comfort zone I believe

[@vlkngrt8805]

If Ottoman was an english Empire, there would be millions of slave. But there are not much in Turkey. They were like a family member and work for rich families' home work. They never worked in fields as slaves. And interesting thing, turkish people call african people as arabic. They think they are same:)

[@semeniukweli]

Not true. Look up "the battle of the Zanj" and Indian Ocean Slave trade. It was not any better than the Atlantic Ocean one.

[@Kristov818]

look up the methods of turkification, taking kids from families and turkifying them is not treating one as a family member

[@africaine4889]

You are not even ashame of ur lies

[@aaronoluoch4510]

@@semeniukweli I checked it and found out the Abassid caliphate or the conflict had nothing to do with the Ottoman empire

[@zfesiha]

@@Kristov818 the families wanted their children to become an important person in the palace. And one the way to do that is become soldier. And if you are a soldier you should see the country like yours. So childeren are turkified to become an important member of palace or be a good soldier. This is only my knowledge. Explanation may be different

[@wiseguy8705]

Peace and love from South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤

[@gokhanaytekin]

Regards to Mandela, Biko and many others from Turkey.

[@Azur_Filip]

Kurds should really look to these guys and learn from them, they are not trying to split the nation with identity politics. I have nothing but love for the fellow Afro-Turks, I hope they get represented more in the future.

[@Azur_Filip]

@Max Payne Yes as long as that solution is not about taking the Turkish lands, sure more power to them. They can have a goverment in the northern Iraq, lots of countries are living under other countries as an autonomus region.There is not even one kurdish state in the history of the world, fact that they just lived in those lands for years doesn't make it theirs.

[@rkntuessday-3485]

@@Azur_Filip 100% Agree!

[@MeoWooff_01]

If every ethnicity has to have their own country, then the already fractured lands from Morocco to Indonesia would be even more fractured. This is something we don't need. The fractured states would be even more powerless.

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Kurds are not slaves!

[@selinaaylin7224]

So ignorant! Their history is a complete different one! Kurds have lived here before! I’m Turkish myself and till this day I do not understand some Turkish people on this matter! It’s not like they want the whole country, just a part that is rightfully theirs!

[@rems7935]

Wow, very interesting. We are visiting Turkey in a few months, I wish I can take a little detour to Izmir. I grew up in Tanzania, I would be more than happy to teach them swahili. ❤❤❤

[@phonkgermania4037]

No thanks ther are turks

[@MK-si9ic]

Love to hear this 🥰

[@gyperdandy]

@@phonkgermania4037 amma boş yapmışsın, turkler başka bir dil öğrenemez diye bi kural mı var.

[@fenerbahceeastbull320]

@@gyperdandy dogru demis, onlar türk. Disardan turist olarak geliip bu islere girisenlere Misyonar denir ve cezasi var.

[@gyperdandy]

@@fenerbahceeastbull320 misyonerligin ikinci bir dil ogrenmekle ne alakasi var açıklar mısın? kiz izmire tatile geliyorum, ordayken swahili dilini ogretebilirim diyor. swahili ne demek onu biliyor olduğundan şüpheliyim bro.

[@nesanetlehulum9046]

I am an east African, when our continent unites and we start to prosper we should bring then back to the motherland Africa

[@Yeswecan787]

Yes

[@kresivarivkah612]

I met an Afro turk in NYC. He was my complexion and his hair was much courser than mine. He was beautiful.

[@BrandonSmith-rb1bf]

Yeah I met a n***@ down the street from me, too. He was also your complexion and hair way more course. He was from Compton 🤣

[@FTC207]

Long live Turkey,

[@erenkaratas8918]

❤❤❤❤

[@rebellefleur2993]

🥰💕💕

[@trionzzz]

Theyre lying in front of our eyes, look at the native turks enjoying their time with them. And they sometimes translate it wrongfully. Advice, dont learn Turkey from a German channel.

[@winniejohnson5559]

Thank you . I agree

[@umerjavad5367]

There is always a paradigm to look at facts. No country in the world has one race or religion or ethnicity or skin color. It doesn't even matter. How productive is a community within any given nation makes all the difference. Countries and people should take a more humane perspective for better and peaceful world.

[@BrandonSmith-rb1bf]

You can't be productive if you don't know who you are

[@aizac91]

Wrong, there always been ethnicity, cultures, history. You trying to debunk all that is nothing but ideology to throw the world into another US country. I’m a southeast Asian and either you know less or you’re playing with the American dogma.

[@ShengTalkKamaKawa]

Bless the sons of the Motherland wherever they may be in this world

[@yllirianblood3642]

MashaAllah very Good , we are Ottomans !!! 🇦🇱❤️🇹🇷

[@tomtank6569]

Your a mix of countries which makes you pseudo country I guess I’m not sure how to explain it ..

[@LoveAndPeace2004]

@@tomtank6569 bruh, just stfu and stop embarrasing urself. Im sure, that u're one of the greek nationalists who still cry over byzantium and Aya Sofya's reconvertation to Mosque

[@alykkt]

@@LoveAndPeace2004 he's right tho. they're just squatters.

[@romodannaib1011]

Hi there. My mother is descended from Turkey. Her mother and father were Turkish they were living in Eritrea and they passed away in Eritrea long time ago. She only know name of her third grandparents nothing more. So can you help us to trace our ancestors.

[@attilamert6973]

Hm i would recommend a dna test?

[@lovelymix8056]

Take a ancestry🧬 test

[@arikanmetselfactori]

A TURK IS A TURK.COLOUR IS NOT IMPORTANT

[@globalcaregivertv8994]

Keep believing that!wish it were true.Which world do you live in?

[@arikanmetselfactori]

@@globalcaregivertv8994 .is it painfull???look to our roots ,and ur roots.i know so pure as a turk,u never can be.but show respect lan.

[@globalcaregivertv8994]

Ms Zeynep greetings once again,I'm not here to prove anything but I'll repeat! TRUTH and FACTS are not the same "Keep believing that comfortable delusion" I do not need to be right I know because I live and breathe it daily. As a daughter of the world of African descent I "know" LOL. Peace Justice & love for all peoples of this world. We can agree to disagree. Bevy in San Francisco.

[@globalcaregivertv8994]

@@arikanmetselfactori Do not understand what you are trying to say but Good luck. Lol

[@globalcaregivertv8994]

@@arikanmetselfactori Laughing out loud! Lol

[@Laitalafraise]

This mini-documentary made me sad. Hearing how this young man was afraid of crowds or belived he had to hide under a chair as a kid to be safe is heartbreaking. Quite depressing!

[@malihulya1033]

But we are mixed.we have different race backround.not only central asia

[@louyht7]

@Kayra Duh.. because you guys are Turkified Greek, Kurds, Armenian and Arab. Real Turks are in the East lol

[@gbastile]

@@louyht7 Rarely read such a nonsense.

[@turankesilmis5655]

@@louyht7 this is not true you stupidass

[@scientistx5717]

Actually he said I was more shy when I was younger many parts were intentionally mistranslated as to depict turkish community as worse The classic media they warp words to blame countries they don't like

[@Aritul]

The subjects of DW documentaries are absolutely fascinating. Glad I stumbled upon this video. Thank you for making it.

[@Kiki-xc2zx]

How can I visit the organization? Where is their information.

[@tylerstifler8994]

twitter.com/mesutmercan35 He is mayor candidate in İzmir, Selçuklu and He is general president of this organization.

[@fawadandfamilyvlogs4671]

Look how a good society has an affect on your character. I am so impressed about the behaviour of the Afro-Türk community in Turkey, in contrast to Western Europe and Americas. I love you my Afro-Türk brothers and sisters. Great people you are.

[@globalcaregivertv8994]

Who are you to make such a racist statement. Stay in your delusional slumber. You are not an authority of African peoples of the world particularly America.Your statement speaks loudly of you and your ancestry's racist history. Kindly sit down.Stop judging.

[@Big-BossX]

@@globalcaregivertv8994 what he means is manners. Us turks value manners behaviour and respect all he said was that hes proud and happy that our afro brothers reflect our values so well. Nothing racist about this

[@diazcastro7331]

@@Big-BossX they are not your brothers . i am sure he gets very bad odd jobs

[@thecraplordsell4575]

@@diazcastro7331 you’re a racist. Even so, he doesn’t let that stop from doing him.

[@mimmiekgaditse3089]

A racist like the child raping false prophet of Islam who taught you this nonsense.

[@AAde-or3qz]

Wow! My jaw is ON the floor.

[@thelink3066]

Oh my God they are beautiful. Love to the Afro Turkish from Africa America. 🇹🇷🖤🇺🇲

[@erdemsahin6484]

Generally Turkish people wonder them so they give a look to afros. But the case isnt the racism. Also Turks find them sympathic

[@bbalila]

Nice to see a historic community in Turkey. 👍.

[@joansmythe6214]

Well you are never to old to learn how we were explored.

[@360will7]

He said that he doesn't know his history, and the narrator said its slavery.

[@Fosix-Kertenkele]

I born in Türkiye 🇹🇷 I had no idea these guys exist. Afro-Turks ? I am suprised

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

The main subject can find his family roots in East Africa, all he needs is to research and collect as much information as possible...names of ancestors, tribes and places, time of migration, circumstances around it etc. Even the name of a ship can help. In Mombasa, Lamu, Malindi, Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salam there are a number of government archives and private family records.

[@albertrilley3341]

Actually they look like they're from East Africa

[@derrickmuganza7215]

The Ottoman Empire really stretched so large into the African continent. I am from Uganda 🇺🇬 and we have a huge statue of Ermin Pasha ( am not sure if it’s the correct spelling or what exactly he was ) and a Luxury Hotel Named after him in Kampala

[@TheLala0077]

nothing to be proud of...

[@serdarbozkurt8544]

hi. correct spelling is emin pasha. his name was mehmet emin pasha.

[@derrickmuganza7215]

@@serdarbozkurt8544 Thanks for the correction.

[@stalkerentertainment3671]

This is the secret of Anatolia, nobody knows whose a brother to the other one. It is beautiful to see many people groups getting along with each other and that is what our ancestors left behind. ❤️🇹🇷❤️

[@Kristov818]

yah its known as brainwashing to think you are a so-called turk.. left behind, more like forced turkification look it up

[@Amazone1]

@@Kristov818 What dp you mean ?

[@Kristov818]

SportsHighlights turks are the result of turkification and in most cases not even turkic

[@stalkerentertainment3671]

@Crow29Darkness They were equally treated back in the Ottoman empire, everyone was equal under the Ottoman flag. Just because the Turks killed some Russian boot lickers (Armenian Tashnak and Hyndshak) does not mean we killed innocent people, who even murdered innocents in Eastern Anatolia, wiped villages and even killed their own brothers and sisters.

[@skullsforerlikkhansthrone9306]

@@Kristov818 It just shows we succeeded being powerful and kikaz, but your state and culture simplyfailed against ours. nowcope.

[@emre05x]

We love our Afro-Turks

[@moin7427]

Please hire better interpreters and translators for your channel DW. You ruined all the positive vibe of this video & made it look like they were complaining about persecution.

[@user-ex3jt8ll4p]

DW News ... avrupa afrika soykırımı. bu konuyla ilgili video. Türkiye'den çaldığınız eserlerin tarihi hakkında bir video. Orta Asya'dan çaldığınız ve sizi Afrika'ya götürdüğünüz hayvanlar hakkında bir video.

[@user-bx2ku3ic4k]

DW we're waiting for a documantary from you about Bergama Temple.

[@theancientsancients1769]

I usually dislike DW reports on Turkey as they are biased unfairly.. but this report was rather a good educating one on Turkey highlighting a group of people many are not aware of they exist in Turkey ✌

[@Sanguinn]

@@galacticreform6288 Eurocentric view is not objectivity.

[@Sanguinn]

@@galacticreform6288 Hiçbiri objektif değil, Batılı kaynaklar da dahil. Özellikle söz konusu Türkler olduğunda Batılılar hiçbir zaman objektif olamıyor, güldürmeyin beni. Batı sağı ile solunun ortak olabildiği tek konu Türk nefreti. İnanmıyorsanız Reddit'te ya da 4chan'de Türklerle ilgili yazılanlara bakın ya da çeşitli haber kanallarına göz atın. Ayrıca Türk olmak Avrupamerkezci olmaya engel değil. Şu "Ortadoğu" denen zırva tabiri kullanmanız bile Avrupamerkezci coğrafya tanımını koşulsuz kabul ettiğinizi gösteriyor. O bölgenin adı Güneybatı Asya; Türkiye ve Kafkasları da kapsarsak Batı Asya.

[@Sanguinn]

​@@galacticreform6288 Türk'ün Türk'ten başka dostu yoktur vb. görüşleri savunmuyorum ve inan cahil halkımızdan benim kadar nefret edemezsin. Fakat konumuz o değil, şu an Türkler dünyada kendisine karşı ırkçılık yapıldığında hiçbir tepkiyle karşılaşılmayan tek ırk. Hâlâ boş boş ikiyüzlü Avrupalıları savunuyorsun. Türkiye'nin özgürlük konusunda geri kalmış olması Avrupalıların taraflı ve önyargılı olduğu gerçeğini değiştirmiyor. İngilizcem var bu arada, yani yabancı basını vb. ben de takip ediyorum. Türkleri savunmak senin sandığın gibi gibi cahil kesimin tekelinde değil. İnternetten tanımadığın birine senin gibi taraflı düşünmüyor diye avam diye sallamak kolay.

[@kitshuter9735]

@DMB Y Crazy that people like that exist, you'd think self-superiority complex to that extent would class as a disability lol

[@rafavelim3051]

You are who you are so love yourself and love your neighbour , don't forget your past but don't dwell on it and enjoy your life

[@adityashinde471]

He seems so humble

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

Focus on Europe? Turkey is a Northern Middle Eastern country (West Asia) NOT a European country.

[@Sam-hq1to]

Europan too. Turkey is in Nato europan council and many europan organisation

[@lacrimosa6335]

​@@Sam-hq1to Culture is totally diffrent. There is no racist culture in Turkey.

[@Ambrosia-]

Türkiye isn't middle eastern, we aren't Arabs and we have nothing to do with Arabs . The word middle east was created by British when Arabs betrayed Turkish and they called middle eastern your Arab countries under their domination. You mustn't use this word with türkiye! Türkiye Is also European, we are eurasian. Eurasia is a continent.

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

Every European I know laugh at Turks who think Turkey is European. No European considers Turkey part of Europe. You are Middle Eastern. Be proud of it

[@rebellefleur2993]

​@@arabicmusiclady1428Nobody wants to be Middle Easterner because the image of Arabs in the world is on the ground 😂😂😂

[@KrenarqejamMUSLIMAN]

Why calling him Afro Turk? He is TURK! Stop calling people Afro American or Afro Turk! We are humans!

[@BrandonSmith-rb1bf]

"African"

[@Ambrosia-]

Turks come from central Asia, they are not turks it's an ethnicity

[@mad4396]

for afro people the easiest place to live without getting problems in their job life and everyday attacks in a non afro country its turkey. i asked one myself . yes there are many many jokes but turks do that always not only to afro turks but to normal to blonde and to asian eyed ones.

[@nestpasunepipe1173]

we really have no feeling than sympathy for our afro brothers, unlike the translation says. the conflict of non-turks live with this "racism issue" is the difference in understanding between our senses of humor.

[@josefYYYY]

Was für eine verdammte scheiss Übersetzung ist dass denn??? Ab 2:30 wo der Sohn was über seine Kindheit erzählt. Er sagt das er als Kind scheu war usw.. Aber er sagt nicht das er in irgend einer Weise ausgrenzt oder anders behandelt wurde. Die Übersetzung ist dermaßen tendenziös, das ist echt zum kotzen!!

[@lutas9628]

Translation is kind of horrible

[@technotasarim]

horrible translation , the young guy says i am shy , dw translated i am terrified.

[@BronzeSista]

Loved this! Thanks for sharing!

[@Oceanwave254]

I would love to visit❤. Have to use translators tho. Language is a big barrier 😢

[@technoshamanarchist]

This is a biased video. Even the translations are tailored. Colored people are treated as brothers in this country. They may draw attention because of their colors, but they're never treated differently. Considering how racist some Germans are towards the Turkish people who live there, who actually helped them build their economy after WW2 (because many German men got killed in the war), this is a sad attempt to promote racism.

[@thekraken1173]

Forced assimilation? What forced assimilation? We didn’t forced people to change their culture.

[@imranjutt.9083]

Lots of love from Pakistan we love you our brothers and sisters turkay.

[@ersgtr3421]

DW bunu yaptı en son Çerkezler’i yaptı. Ailemin yarısı Balkan yarısı yörük. Sıra bana ne zaman gelecek diye bekliyorum

[@Yoyozworld19]

I had no idea that was a thing, that’s awesome

[@LehmannGeneral]

Love afroturk... Inna akromakum indallaahi atqookum

[@abzfootie]

I thought there is no discrimination in Islam

[@ghostferatu6241]

This is the real KARA BOGA.

[@georgecostanzasbaseballbat2888]

Yeah classic DW… Just balme evrything on the Turks and show misconceptions about Turkey so people who are not familiar would recognise us as a fachist state…

[@miiv8888]

It's a very offensive and exaggerating title against Turkey. Unrelated about the video but It's interesting this German channel give very bad impression about Turkey. You was had Auschwitz guys, whatever you do will not be sufficient to cover that shame.

[@liqiz1755]

So what? People can still make reports, documentary’s about other countrys and experiences and people after war not guilty about anything, holocaust is by the way punishable offense in Germany. Turkey never accept the guilty of their genocide against Armenia 🎉

[@XXDJOZXX]

dw get some new translators or stop translating it wrong. You can't just decide to portray the way you wanted, not good journalism!

[@sponsponm1]

Damn our people have suffered we have been enslaved and displaced to Europe, middle East India and the Americas

[@taylorangel7700]

Deuteronomy 4:27 [27]And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

[@eriklindstrom4910]

3:50 is afro-turk?

[@lokumftw2621]

From his waist up he is Turkish. From the waist down he is African.

[@anti-narc1343]

@@lokumftw2621 Lmfaooooo

[@karthala6676]

Would like to know when the festival takes every year

[@owo239]

There are many mistranslated sentences in this video.

[@spritmc]

DW는 독일의 공영 방송 서비스입니다.

[@user-dz4eb5rb3g]

Thanks for saying that in Hangul

[@arthurralstonwakeupblackpe5940]

You are in Africa I wish I could talk to them it's no such thing as a Middle East it's a British construct ...

[@amayafarki]

What no it isn’t the Middle East has always been the Middle East

[@georgeskanderbeg3242]

😂😂😂😂 what

[@Taylorpeach.]

Everywhere we are, we are the minority but watching videos about our 'dispersal' from all four corners of the earth we are a resilient majority!

[@marioseshfdr9096]

The name of the song at end please?

[@hazel0963]

Erik dalı

[@realdeal8303]

I'm tired of these damn countries acting as if they don't know about us

[@davidfoley726]

Is the savage the enslaved or the one who enslaves? I’ll leave that right there!

[@Cocker-Lilaa]

LOVE AFRO-TURKS 🇹🇷🇪🇺 ❤️🤘

[@randomguy-kn1wl]

there are wrong tranlations on several occasions here. is this on purpose? he does not say he faced racism in turkish. He literally says he is anxious in the public because he fears he get stared at. this is not racism....

[@armanmoyer]

The more we focus on WHERE we come from, the more we miss out the fact that we are all humans living on planet earth. Humanity is the root of all of us. We need to pass over small differences in us and celebrate our similarities. We need to celebrate life together. That's the only way to live our short lives here in PEACE and HAPPINESS.

[@BrandonSmith-rb1bf]

I'm guessing you don't think its important to know who you are

[@erixariddell2172]

Other races were enslaved including european enslavement. Why are Africans always labelled desendants of slaves. Slavery is not a religion or race or title, it was a brutal regime, an atrocity committed by many races on another race of people. He slained his brother for wealth. A wound of immense proportions that has driven the angles of peace from Earth. Pain and suffering and wars will be Mankinds reward.

[@technotasarim]

btw , their ancestors were not slaves , they were ottoman soldiers..there is a big differece right there.

[@bilgekhan6577]

Ne kadar güzel Türkçe konuşuyorlar Allahım milletimizi zengin kıldığın için çok teşekkür ederim

[@bugraemek1961]

Ana dilleri Türkçe çünkü

[@herberttabeta96]

Onlar turk zaten 😂😂😂

[@TaYLoRBReaKouT]

Cunku Turk, mal misin?

[@ihonestlydontknow9968]

Salak zaten doğma büyüme türkler

[@NoahBodze]

You stole and castrated them.

[@onepunchman8721]

Very wrong and bad translation

[@aman-hl9re]

Peace to the afro-turks

[@rileypotter1673]

I learned that I descend from an Afro-Turk. I took a DNA test and thought I was just half Turkish and half European. I learned that I have a small amount of African ancestry (Senegambian and Ethiopian). I found a cousin who was living in Africa, and we matched to a person 5 generations ago who was mixed with West Asian and West African DNA. I never knew about this until my distant cousin contacted me, and then I did some googling and learned that African laborers settled into Antalya, where my Turkish family is from. It's quite a surprise, but it clicks why my Grandfather had darker features.

[@jennevabrereton7010]

Are there history book ?

[@laaylagi6503]

Not surprised I think emin pasha correct me if I am wrong reached sudan .

[@MountyCrizto]

One day my kind will have Vengeance

[@Lili-xk2uj]

I love Turkish people .they are hard working, friendly and nice people . Lots of Love to my Turkish friends😍

[@elonmusk2540]

turks are anything but friendly and nice

[@R2d2..]

@@elonmusk2540racist

[@BalkanUltras48]

@@R2d2.. Turks talking about racism?😅

[@raymondjblaze7761]

Yeah right

[@Leonheart18]

Everything is a lie, Ottomans conquered countries where slavery was already in place, they didn't bring it or created it, with the exception of central Ottoman Empire ( current Turkiye and neighboor countries in Asia ), pretty much everywhere was still governed by locals as long as they paid taxes and they swore to not attack the empire, things were left as it is. Regarding Africans, they were sold in Istanbul by merchants from those countries, mostly arabs merchant, that's how they were brought in Anatolia, nothing to do with the Ottoman army. But eventually Ottoman Empire was also the one to abolish it, cause it was brought to the court of the Sultan how bad they were treated, only empire in the history to do so by the way, but this actually was a wrong move cause it made locals in those countries unhappy and is one of the reasons for the revolts.

[@basedfinger]

noone said they created it. but they continued the practice of slavery

[@m.h.k4214]

I m from Pakistan, Turks are not racist, either the brown young guy is lying or English translation is bad. Little issues you always find all part of the world

[@lutas9628]

Slightly bad translation.he says he was much more shy but narrator says it was way worse. Plus kids can be cruel everywhere in the world

[@margiesoapyhairbillian4754]

Very interested. Thank you

[@KaiserNabolaasidcreativeplus]

Your dream to travel to Africa will definitely come true sooner than you imagine.

[@zeyyl8311]

Also what i have learned,, having a slave from Mecca, Medina while returning back from being pligrim, and take him back with you,, give him, his freedom is another way of worship, and most of them said, that slave could be grandchildres of any sahabas,, it would be big honour to take God Allah pleasure by doing this.. Treated Like a family member, find someone for marrige and help for his New life,, İf any bad habit was occured, don't you think it would be told by all generations till today,, So there was/is no racism in turkey, everyone was/is avare that we are all same human beings belong to Allah