Actually kind of interesting, there are lots of different looking people in Turkey apparently just not too many black ones so they get noticed. I had an old girlfriend who moved to Concord, New Hampshire for much the same atmosphere minus the Muslims.
Actually kind of interesting, there are lots of different looking people in Turkey apparently just not too many black ones so they get noticed.
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more black slaves were sent to Turkey (the Ottoman Empire), than to the American colonies.
...but today, we have over 30 million descendants of slaves, while Turkey has almost none...
...slavery was legal in Saudi Arabia, until 1964,
but there are almost no blacks in Saudi Arabia either...
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Malcolm X, Nation of Islam and Shaykh Abdalqadir - Islamic slavery of non-Muslims
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2740353/posts
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However, at least 28 million Africans were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. ... it is believed that the death toll from the 14 centuries of Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been over 112 million.
http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles_ca/2004-4-TheScourgeofSlavery.htm