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  2. Turkish people - Wikipedia

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    There are also nomadic Turkic tribes who descend directly from Central Asia, such as the Yörüks; [110] the Black Sea Turks in the north whose "speech largely lacks the vowel harmony valued elsewhere"; [110] the descendants of muhacirs (Turkish refugees) who fled persecution from former Ottoman territories in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...

  3. Afro-Turks - Wikipedia

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    Ahmet Ali Çelikten was the first black pilot in aviation history. Ahmet Ali Çelikten, a combat pilot of the Ottoman Air Force during World War I, was the first black aviator in history. In June 2020, the Afro-Turk Association organized one of many worldwide marches for Black Lives Matter in İzmir in response to the murder of George Floyd. [8]

  4. Ethnic groups in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...

  5. List of countries by ethnic groups - Wikipedia

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    The following article lists sovereign states, dependent territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries.

  6. Ottoman Turks - Wikipedia

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    The Ottoman Turks (Turkish: Osmanlı Türkleri) were a Turkic ethnic group native to Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia , they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire , in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the entirety of the six centuries that it existed.

  7. Afro–Turks and Caicos Islanders - Wikipedia

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    Afro–Turks and Caicos Islanders or Black Turks and Caicos Islanders are Turks and Caicos Islanders who are of African descent. [2] As of 2013, people of African descent are the majority ethnic group in the Turks and Caicos Islands accounting for around 87.6% of the territory's population. [1]

  8. Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness - Wikipedia

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    The medieval Arab world used various terminology for people in reference to their skin colour with terms like al-bidan and al-abyad meaning "white people" and al-Sudan and Zanj meaning "black people". [132] [133] In general in the Arab world, the term "white" was used to refer to Arabs, Persians, Greeks, Turks, Slavs, and other peoples in the ...

  9. Black Turks - Wikipedia

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    Religious/conservative Turks celebrate religious holiday "Kurban Bayramı" (Eid al-Adha) in Gölköy in 2005. Black Turks is a socio-economic term used to describe Turks who are a lower or middle income class. They are described as religious and traditional in contrast to the more Europeanized class of their country.