Turks of African descent have been in Turkey since the Ottoman empire

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 3. 06. 2018
  • Strait Talk host Ali Mustafa speaks to Mesut Mercan, a Turk of African descent who is also a politician with the Iyi Party (Good party)

Komentáře • 248

  • @mhnd7lfa891
    @mhnd7lfa891 Před 6 lety +181

    Iam from Sudan too,turks are our Brothers and sisters

    • @arafadirar
      @arafadirar Před 5 lety

      Sudanese Rapid Support ayeee same

    • @mhnd7lfa891
      @mhnd7lfa891 Před 5 lety

      Arafa ayeeee 😹😹😹😹

    • @lililuna9976
      @lililuna9976 Před 5 lety +3

      @@antonydaniels1807 ya mean arabs are like that

    • @ahmadistanbouli6136
      @ahmadistanbouli6136 Před 5 lety

      @@lililuna9976 no you turks are like that too. Typical turk blaming arabs for their sins. We had enought of you

    • @africaine4889
      @africaine4889 Před 4 lety +3

      Do u know how his ancestors got to turkey? The ottoman empire enslaved africans

  • @onelove-qg7xg
    @onelove-qg7xg Před 6 lety +135

    I never knew of African descendant in Turkey..

    • @firstladychosen1371
      @firstladychosen1371 Před 5 lety +11

      one love well you know now

    • @paganpoet3
      @paganpoet3 Před 5 lety

      czcams.com/video/5NHDoZCHMEg/video.html

    • @zanguiza
      @zanguiza Před 5 lety +3

      one love, we are everywhere!

    • @lb.3199
      @lb.3199 Před 4 lety +11

      There African descendants in every country of the world.

    • @dayift2387
      @dayift2387 Před 4 lety +4

      @@paganpoet3 we are Turks not arabs

  • @crocustorrent5093
    @crocustorrent5093 Před 3 lety +31

    My great aunt’s husband was an Afro Turk as well. His father came with caravans from East Africa and married a Muslim lady from Crete in West Turkey, then under Ottoman Empire. Africans were brought to this geography for several generations and worked in agricultural lands and as artisans and domestic help in farms in western Turkey. There are many villages with Afro Turks

    • @Pyrrhic537
      @Pyrrhic537 Před 9 měsíci

      I'm not trying to be know it all but the East Coast slave trade to the Middle East was conducted by sea. Slaves were not only taken from the East but from far inland into Central Africa. Malawi, Zambia, Congo, as well as Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya, the horn of Africa region to name a few.
      The slave caravans that crossed the Sarahan desert were from West Central ,Central Africa, Southern and Western Sudan and even were captured by Islamic states such as Darfur, Borno Kanem, Kano, Sokoto ar the time the Ottomans were slave trading. Most were walked through the desert to Tripoli and and Derma in Libya, Morocco, Egypt.
      This list is not definitive. There were many more Kingdom's over a longer time scale and satellite Kingdom's. Slaves were nearly always taken from the South of these Kingdom's even from hundreds of miles away. A less powerful kingdom would have to pay tribute in slaves, Ivory, gold, wildlife etc. Occasionally even Muslim's were raided un warfare by Islamists who saw their victims as less serious Muslim's. During this period thousands of Muslims from the Hausa, Borno Kingdom's etc were sent to Bahia Brazil in the early 1800s by Fulani Jihadists who used the pretext that some of them still practised traditional tribal spiritual practices. Most sent across the Sahara were not Muslim though but some were.

  • @Kabeyavictoria
    @Kabeyavictoria Před 5 lety +86

    I'm a Black Levantine and our ancestors also came from Kush, North Sudan and Egypt. Sendig love to my Black Levantines and Ottomans ❤

    • @Kabeyavictoria
      @Kabeyavictoria Před 5 lety +4

      @Ibrahim Somali So you actually have to see something from your own eyes for it to exist?

    • @Dravidian93gangster
      @Dravidian93gangster Před 5 lety +2

      @@Kabeyavictoria shut UP only bantu and swahili live in middle east. You are west African enslaved by french

    • @muharremyuksel4702
      @muharremyuksel4702 Před 4 lety +2

      Hi beauty are you live in Turkey??

    • @Bot-gy9gx
      @Bot-gy9gx Před 3 lety +2

      @@Dravidian93gangster Afro Palestinians are a thing. I don’t recall France colonising Palestine. So you Shut Up

    • @Kabeyavictoria
      @Kabeyavictoria Před 3 lety

      @Larry Appelton ❤

  • @sara_s_
    @sara_s_ Před 4 lety +98

    I'm Turkish and I never knew there are Afro-Turks. You learn something new everyday.

    • @TISINLI2
      @TISINLI2 Před 4 lety +10

      You never heard of Esmeray? Yasemin from Sut Kardesler?

    • @altayjam358
      @altayjam358 Před 3 lety +1

      You gotta be joking mate! Türkiyenin büyük bir imparatorlukdan miras kaldıgını Bi habersin!

    • @leonardorjioffor6683
      @leonardorjioffor6683 Před 3 lety +7

      I guess you sees them as foreigners in turkey 🇹🇷, I hope from now on your views about them can change

    • @garrettlachlan4380
      @garrettlachlan4380 Před 2 lety +1

      You probably dont care but does anyone know of a tool to get back into an instagram account..?
      I stupidly lost my login password. I love any tricks you can give me.

    • @kyngronin2442
      @kyngronin2442 Před 2 lety

      @Garrett Lachlan instablaster :)

  • @adama2988
    @adama2988 Před 2 lety +16

    Turkey 🇹🇷 best historical nation on the earth

    • @Kurrusew
      @Kurrusew Před rokem +1

      Yes, that history includes the Armenian genocide. Shame on you

  • @user-op6pr8fk8d
    @user-op6pr8fk8d Před 5 lety +49

    He has the feature of sudanese i think he is a nubian from north of sudan very clever and brave people.

    • @madutmalet7108
      @madutmalet7108 Před 5 lety +1

      He is a Dinka.

    • @tarik2908
      @tarik2908 Před 5 lety

      South Sudan

    • @mohammedbashir2769
      @mohammedbashir2769 Před 5 lety

      سودانى شديد and Somalis just in case you don’t know

    • @samaale7381
      @samaale7381 Před 4 lety +2

      @@mohammedbashir2769 He can't be of somali. We have never been to turkey and we dont have that bantu feature. He is from Sudan and therefore a Nilots

    • @queenofpunt
      @queenofpunt Před 4 lety

      @TURKUN GUCUNU GORECEKSINIZ. Hahahahah This nilotic bantu descentants have nothing to do with Cushitic Somalis

  • @gberi317
    @gberi317 Před 3 lety +14

    War on the keyboard. I lo love Turkey and hope to become Turkish one day. I'm from Cameroon.

    • @Deniz-gz4sr
      @Deniz-gz4sr Před 6 měsíci

      İnşallah you marry a turkish girl bro

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 Před 4 lety +29

    Turks as a whole are a mix of Middle Eastern, European, And East Asian with some Caucasus And Sub Saharan Africans mixed in too every so often

    • @bassgary9530
      @bassgary9530 Před 4 lety +8

      Haha are u joking ? :) the afro turks come here at 1700 and stayed in turkey, so we are not mix, we came from central asia and stil have turks in there to, search well dude:)

    • @bassgary9530
      @bassgary9530 Před 4 lety

      @mutlak Türk yes ı know it. I ll watch it.

    • @thatguykev856
      @thatguykev856 Před 3 lety

      @@bassgary9530 The Afro turks were
      Brought there during the Arab slave trade

    • @hashslingingslasher4214
      @hashslingingslasher4214 Před 2 lety +1

      @@thatguykev856 like every other prisoner of war. Slavery wasn’t based on race, that only happened in America and their chattel slavery

    • @thatguykev856
      @thatguykev856 Před 2 lety +1

      @@hashslingingslasher4214 You are right. But it still doesn’t change the fact that they are discriminated against and face racism

  • @alsuasena4200
    @alsuasena4200 Před 6 lety +80

    African Turks are adorable

    • @adanadan6167
      @adanadan6167 Před 5 lety +2

      They are from Somalia actually they are not African Turks

    • @Eli08ish
      @Eli08ish Před 5 lety +7

      What's up with always saying that an adult black man or black people in Turkey are adorable?? They are just people and it sounds dumb.

    • @Br020XX
      @Br020XX Před 4 lety +4

      @@Eli08ishturkish people just love black people i think

    • @quackquack7595
      @quackquack7595 Před 4 lety +18

      @@adanadan6167 they are living in here for 400 years. I believe they have a right to call themselves Turkish and they are indeed Turkish.

    • @quackquack7595
      @quackquack7595 Před 4 lety +8

      @@paperliger1199 not all of them were brought as slaves. First educate yourself about the history of Turkey. Secondly understand the concept of "slavery" during Ottoman Empire time cuz it was different than what was in the US or Europe and we can have a civilized conversation.

  • @Ulix100
    @Ulix100 Před 6 lety +17

    That’s amazing:)

  • @mapa174
    @mapa174 Před 6 lety +63

    We love ottomans 🇹🇷💝

    • @gluehuffer1411
      @gluehuffer1411 Před 5 lety

      moussa guefarou sinte arabs dont

    • @brudasoiso459
      @brudasoiso459 Před 4 lety

      ryan why man a lot of Arabs are Turkish and lots of Turks are Arab

    • @AC-ni9zk
      @AC-ni9zk Před 4 lety +3

      Fire pencil Turkish and arab are two different ethnicities.

    • @brudasoiso459
      @brudasoiso459 Před 4 lety

      Ahmet Tunc in the last 1000 years there has been a lot of mixing we Turks aren’t even that Turkic anymore we are more Arab Greek Anatolian and stuff

    • @AC-ni9zk
      @AC-ni9zk Před 4 lety +1

      Fire pencil no a Turk is a Turk. We are different from the Arab race and the Arab culture. Yes we have some similarities but as a nationality and a race we come from two different ethnic groups of people. We are from Turkic tribes where as Arabs are form the arab tribes. We need to remember our ancestors as we are from the Turkic people

  • @shiney94
    @shiney94 Před 4 lety +38

    The fact that majority of turks do not look like Uyghurs goes to show that us turks come from a variety of races.
    Being a turk in turkey is more of a nationality than biology

    • @brudasoiso459
      @brudasoiso459 Před 4 lety +7

      ShineyM it’s unity my brother!

    • @fenerbahceeastbull320
      @fenerbahceeastbull320 Před 3 lety +2

      The Turks from Turkey dont come from China or Mongolia, we always lived in Europe. We are comming from the eastern Kaspic Sea, today Kazachstan/Uzbekistan.

    • @saadiaarslanturk2850
      @saadiaarslanturk2850 Před 3 lety +10

      Ottoman empire was more about being Ottoman . Just like United States. There are balkan, Anatolian, North African, African and central Asism Turks. Race is irrelevant.

    • @guleiro
      @guleiro Před 2 lety +1

      @@saadiaarslanturk2850
      Much respect for the Turkish nation ❤
      An example to the world.

    • @DSAK55
      @DSAK55 Před rokem +1

      Exactly, when I look at the faces of Turks, I see that Turkiye is more diverse than America

  • @romodannaib1011
    @romodannaib1011 Před 3 lety +6

    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.

  • @SC-vw1nx
    @SC-vw1nx Před 3 lety +9

    He speak Turkish better than me ! Love Africa

    • @zaza5658
      @zaza5658 Před 3 lety +14

      He is Turkish

    • @ahdakhalid3384
      @ahdakhalid3384 Před rokem +1

      It’s because he’s a TURK of African descent !!!

  • @mrad6707
    @mrad6707 Před 2 lety +7

    They look turkish 🇹🇷 for me just with black color.

    • @MirMahmud2003
      @MirMahmud2003 Před rokem

      They are mixed. Maybe Ottoman father and African mother.

  • @imsouw5342
    @imsouw5342 Před 3 lety +6

    Its time for Turkey to invest more in Indonesia considering the historical ties in the past between Aceh and Ottoman or between Mataram and Ottoman and until now the Indonesian people have always remembered the greatness of Ottoman in this time.

  • @alilikoglu8949
    @alilikoglu8949 Před 4 lety +3

    Yeşilyurt, eşrefpaşa dolaylarında çok fazla yerli zenci arkadaşları gördüm. Basmane tarafında ise son dönemde gelen sudanlılar kenyalılar somalilileri gördüm..

  • @daphnerodriguez9980
    @daphnerodriguez9980 Před rokem

    THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜

  • @lagmfaresi7744
    @lagmfaresi7744 Před 4 lety +12

    funny part is that he is member of one most ultra turkish nationalist party:)

    • @youandme9078
      @youandme9078 Před 3 lety +1

      Turkish nationalist party is not only for uralic. But Altai too

    • @altayjam358
      @altayjam358 Před 3 lety

      To you funny part!

  • @manakamuhammad6936
    @manakamuhammad6936 Před 4 lety +27

    It's like black man is everywhere in the planet.

    • @quackquack7595
      @quackquack7595 Před 4 lety +4

      They are. The oldest skeleton found in Anatolia is actually black and was found in Denizli.

    • @soniadiamond5468
      @soniadiamond5468 Před 4 lety

      WHAT ARE BLESSINGS

    • @ThroughDarknessComesLight
      @ThroughDarknessComesLight Před 4 lety +5

      No shit dumbass have you ever heard of slave trade ?

    • @ThroughDarknessComesLight
      @ThroughDarknessComesLight Před 4 lety +1

      Büşra Kaya no it’s not you damn Afrocentric liar state your sources

    • @quackquack7595
      @quackquack7595 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ThroughDarknessComesLight before swearing search it since you know how to write, right?

  • @redhood3748
    @redhood3748 Před 3 lety +1

    Sweet😍

  • @peterchege5301
    @peterchege5301 Před 8 měsíci

    My race everywhere I am proud of it.

  • @JomoDaMusicMan
    @JomoDaMusicMan Před 5 lety +11

    HE IS THE CLARENCE THOMAS AND THE DR BEN CARSON OF TURKEY

  • @CEB1896
    @CEB1896 Před 2 lety +2

    I was surprised when he said that he’s related to a MHP-founder.

    • @DSAK55
      @DSAK55 Před rokem

      So was I. It's like he's more nationalist that the majority of Turks

    • @Deniz-gz4sr
      @Deniz-gz4sr Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@DSAK55he is Ottoman !!

  • @jackeyshemamora8069
    @jackeyshemamora8069 Před rokem

    Sudan sizin eviniz ve her zaman açığız. ❤

  • @fkf6574
    @fkf6574 Před 5 lety +2

    MESUT MERCAN IS MHP AND MIT FROM SUDAN!

  • @rampantmutt9119
    @rampantmutt9119 Před 5 lety +9

    KARA BOGA

  • @onemuslimummah6439
    @onemuslimummah6439 Před rokem

    What is happening about 2023 which is 100 years of Lausanne aggrement
    WE are waiting for the revival of Ottoman Empire

  • @fkf6574
    @fkf6574 Před 5 lety +2

    TURKISH NATIONALIST !!!

  • @fkf6574
    @fkf6574 Před 5 lety +2

    MHP FOUNDER AFRICAN TURK

  • @umibrahimibrahim4966
    @umibrahimibrahim4966 Před 3 lety +3

    If his Sudanese grand father was alive, wouldn't choose the same party.

  • @janinealexander8919
    @janinealexander8919 Před 2 lety +3

    What about the ancient black Turks?, original Turks.

  • @fkf6574
    @fkf6574 Před 5 lety +1

    AFRICA MIT GLOBAL

  • @leventyldrm2374
    @leventyldrm2374 Před 4 lety +1

    Adamdaki aksana bak benden daha iyi konuşuyo

  • @BabiletubeAbdulrahmanmmohamed

    Turkish empire rrepresent islam empire not colour

    • @ozgunruna9326
      @ozgunruna9326 Před 3 lety

      empire means kingdom exploits not only its own people but also other nations.

  • @whyistherumgone5693
    @whyistherumgone5693 Před 2 lety +1

    Lol Turkish black minority Turkish nationalists mostly is really interesting.

    • @69socialmedia97
      @69socialmedia97 Před 2 lety

      All citizens are equal and Turkish when you understand it you will understand Turkish natiolosim.Our natiolism not about races it is about who love us who hates from us.

  • @aydngok2015
    @aydngok2015 Před rokem

    Türklerin renk değiştirmiş halleri Sanırım renkleri beyaz olsaydı Saf bir Türk e benzerlerdi

  • @GoogleUser-wp6sg
    @GoogleUser-wp6sg Před 3 lety +1

    ottoman empire destroyed many churches in my country Eritrea

    • @furkanbasbug4217
      @furkanbasbug4217 Před 2 lety +2

      empty propaganda. The Ottomans will never destroy churches, just as the Spaniards did to the Umayyads in Andalusia.The Ottomans would only convert the biggest place of worship of the places they conquered into a mosque and would not touch the people around. If the church were destroyed, you would be a Muslim today, which is a religion of tolerance and No compulsion

    • @GoogleUser-wp6sg
      @GoogleUser-wp6sg Před 2 lety

      @@furkanbasbug4217 dont tell me about my country. Probably even heard recently. Ottomans tried fo conquer medri Bahri but they failed.
      Don't assume me of saying something. You dont know my country and you dont know my country's history. I thank my forefathers that they kicked the ottomans, otherwise as you said i would be Muslim, which i am not.
      🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷

    • @Deniz-gz4sr
      @Deniz-gz4sr Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@GoogleUser-wp6sgat least ottoman did not destroy People you can say I am not muslim king leopald chopped up 20k People

  • @forevamd
    @forevamd Před 2 lety

    You leave me no choice turkey.

  • @sepp4032
    @sepp4032 Před 4 lety

    Kara Boga

  • @chiefrabbi6735
    @chiefrabbi6735 Před 2 lety

    So they have hoods in Istanbul?

    • @bostonluyasar7045
      @bostonluyasar7045 Před 2 lety +4

      No, because the Turkish society is not segregated by color, it is segregated by religion. Color segregation is a western concept.

  • @lovethyself744
    @lovethyself744 Před 3 lety

    Not true. Some of them were there way before

    • @agacinayet_var_
      @agacinayet_var_ Před 3 lety +2

      This is correct. I live there. They are one of us now and they are Turkish.And this is happy for us

  • @professionalhacker2834
    @professionalhacker2834 Před 6 lety +21

    God bless Erdogan and protect him. Victory for erdogan. Long live Erdogan

  • @robertepps2834
    @robertepps2834 Před rokem

    The Original Turks are the Black Turks! Put in on CZcams { General Monk Monk } look at that 6 minute video Everybody!

  • @shamikchakraborty3341
    @shamikchakraborty3341 Před 6 lety +5

    My Ni**a

    • @xz4409
      @xz4409 Před 6 lety +28

      shamik chakraborty my Turk*

    • @pointx3444
      @pointx3444 Před 6 lety +6

      he is not turk

    • @ludy41
      @ludy41 Před 5 lety +1

      You must be lonely. Have you no friend?

    • @tahliah6691
      @tahliah6691 Před 5 lety

      To coolies need to stay in your lane...

    • @belizeangal3409
      @belizeangal3409 Před 4 lety

      Tahnn Ju stfu

  • @sumax-nz1je
    @sumax-nz1je Před 5 lety +1

    None is turk guys u can only be turk in culture and believes but Turks in DNA it's impossible half are Arabic DNA other half is European DNA even qemal Ataturk young man with blue eyes and blonde brown hair is it possible for Turks to be blonde with blue eyes no

    • @bluesky8033
      @bluesky8033 Před 3 lety +2

      You have no idea about the origin of the turks or the people of Anatolia, go spread your anti-turk propaganda somewhere else

  • @nncyldn
    @nncyldn Před 5 lety +4

    The guy is Sudanese claiming to be Turkish how sad.

    • @MistiriousStranger1
      @MistiriousStranger1 Před 5 lety +24

      He said that his ancestors where from Sudan,he was born in Turkey. Listen to the video again...

    • @sybcp1981
      @sybcp1981 Před 5 lety

      Yes so sad

    • @sybcp1981
      @sybcp1981 Před 5 lety

      Gbren97 Do you like when a Gurbetci said that he was a German, not Turkish? Do you like when Turks have been assimilated by Germans in Germany? Do you like when Turks cannot even speak one Turkish word in Germany? Do you know Turks who speak English at home insulted other Turks who speak Turkish at home in England?

    • @sybcp1981
      @sybcp1981 Před 5 lety

      @@MistiriousStranger1 Yes, forget about your own people and be proud with this. Go on then...

    • @sybcp1981
      @sybcp1981 Před 5 lety +1

      @@MistiriousStranger1 I will do what I did when Mesut Ozil scored against Turkey in Germany-Turkey football match and it is not your business. Bye.