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Afro-Turks are the descendants of Africans who arrived in Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Aegean Islands during the Ottoman Empire. This community uses the term "Afro-Turk" to reference their African ancestry. Afro-Turks carry not only the ethnic or geographic origins of their ancestors but also the traces of social, cultural, and political experiences from various historical periods and regions. Historical Background Throughout the approximately 600-year existence of the Ottoman Empire, populati