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.
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