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1 Feb, 9 tweets, 4 min read
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! This year, I wanted to highlight some figures from the African diaspora in Turkey, as well as those from the global diaspora who have a connection to Turkey. Today, I'll link some existing reading/resource threads ✨✊🏾 Mustafa OlpakSafiye Ayla Eartha KittKuzgun Açar
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here's a thread that I put together last september on race, racialization, and blackness in the MENA region
Türkçe bilenler için - Afro Türk'ün web sitesi budur: afroturc.org Image
Contextualizing BLM in Turkey: A Panel Discussion via @YouTube
Dr. Michael Talbot's crowd-sourced thread is also a great resource to comb through for additional reading material - looking forward to seeing this list preserved!
Relatedly, please check out Shireen Hamza's thread on South Asian history.
There's a lot of great work coming out from @AjamMC as well:
If you haven't already, immediately follow @BlackIranians. They've been creating amazing content centered around Black and Afro Iranian voices.
Mustafa Olpak, Afro Turkish writer & activist (b. October 1953 - October 4, 2016)

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"The first generation lives, the second generation rejects, the third generation researches..."

With this refrain, he began to narrate the history of Ottoman slavery & chart the lives of his family. Today's #BlackHistoryMonth profile is writer & activist, Mustafa Olpak. ImageImage
The fifth child of Mehmet, a stone mason, and Kemale, a seamstress, Mustafa Olpak was born in Ayvalık, Turkey in October 1953. After finishing primary school, he began working in a lathe workshop. Later, he would get involved in labor movements, such as the Tariş Direnişi. ImageImage
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Sept 8-9, I’ll be participating in the #ScholarStrike. Here’s a thread of articles that touch on race, racialization, and/or blackness outside of the U.S., primarily in the MENA region
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